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EDITOR'S 


NOTE 


A  Letter  Of  Thanks 


Washington  College  is  grateful  to  the  following 
donors  who  have  made  leadership  gifts  of  $100,000  or 
more  toward  campaign  goals: 


The  George  I.  Alden  Trust 

American  Packaging  Corporation 

Anonymous  (3) 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  C.  Baker 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Beck,  Jr. 

Booth  Ferris  Foundation 

Betty  Brown  Casey  '47 

The  Dorothy  Jordan  Chadwick  Fund 

Chevy  Chase  Bank 

The  Clayton  Fund 

The  Crystal  Trust 

Dorothy  Williams  Daly  '38 


The  Arthur  Vining  Davis  Foundations 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alonzo  G.  Decker  Jr. 

The  Decker  Foundation 

The  Jessie  Ball  duPont  Fund 

The  Estate  of  Diantha  Roe  Eaton  '28 

The  France-Merrick  Foundation 

The  Thomas  H.  and  Barbara  W.  Gale 

Foundation 
Estate  of  Louis  L.  Goldstein  '35  H'77 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  S.  Griswold 
The  Estate  of  Martha  R.  Harrison  '36 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  L.  Harwood 


On  September  18,  1998,  the  Board  of  Visitors  and 
Governors  announced  a  $72  million  Campaign  for 
Washington's  College.  As  this  fiscal  year  comes  to  a 
close  on  June  30,  the  Board  is  proud  to  report  that  more  than 
$50  million  has  been  raised. 

However,  complacency  would  be  an  error.  We  must  inten- 
sify our  efforts  toward  our  goal  and  beyond.  With  continued 
support  from  alumni  and  friends  1  am  confident  we  will  suc- 
ceed. Space  limits  this  special  thank  you  to  the  top  donors  to 
date;  however,  all  donors  will  be  included  in  our  upcoming 
Annual  Report. 

—  L.  Clifford  Schroeder 

Chairman,  Washington  College 
Board  of  Visitors  and  Governors 


Clifford  Sctiroeder  is  president  of 
Clironos  Ltd.  and  Dixie  Capital 
Corporation,  both  of  Richmond, 
VA.  He  Is  Glialrman  of  the  Chesa- 
peal<e  Bay  Assistance  Board  and 
has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Environmental  Transition  Team  in 
Virginia.  The  father  of  Cliff  '91  and 
Christopher  '94,  Schroeder  is  a 
member  of  the  Washington  Col- 
lege National  Campaign  Cabinet. 


The  Hodson  Trust 

Huntingfield  Corporation 

The  Independent  College  Fund  of 

Maryland 
The  Christian  A.  Johnson  Endeavor 

Foundation 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  B.  Johnson 
The  Grayce  B.  Kerr  Fund 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Breene  M.  Kerr 
The  Estate  of  William  Kight  '36 
The  Kresge  Foundation 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  L.  Lea 
The  Estate  of  Bertha  Lewis 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Craig  Lewis 
The  Andrew  W.  Mellon  Foundation 
The  Middendorf  Foundation 


NationsBank 

The  Estate  of  W.  Kennon  Perrin  '31 
The  Estate  of  Joyce  Poetil  '60 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Price 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  M.  D.  Roe  '43 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stanley  Schottland  '42 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  Clifford  Schroeder 
Joyce  Huber  Smith 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edmund  A.  Staidey  Jr. 
The  Starr  Foundation 
Estate  of  Henrietta  Straughn  '27 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  H.  Thawley  '43 
Van  Dyke  Family  Foundation 
The  Estate  of  M.  Virginia  Webb 
The  Estate  of  Mary  Ivolue  Jammer 
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VOLUME      XLVII     NO.  4 
SUMMER      1999 
USPS      667-260 

STAFF 

Editor 

Meredith  Davies  Hadaway  M'96 

Managing  Editor 

Marcia  Landslcroener 

Art  Director 

Diane  Landskroener  '76  M'81 

Editorial  &  Production  Assistant 

Kate  Meagher  '97 

Associate  Editor 

Douglas  Hanks  HI 

Class  Notes  Editor 

Kristina  Tatusko  Henry  '88 

Editorial  Consultant 

Kevm  O'Keefe  74 

Contributing  Writers 

Kristina  Tatusko  Henry  '88 

Trams  HolUngsworth  75  M'95 

Marshall  Norton  '98 

Ann  Schlottman 

Contributing  Photographer 

Wayles  Wilson  "03 

Printing  and  Mailing 

Whitmore  Print  and  Imaging 

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y/oshington  CoWnge.  Magazine  (USPS  667-260) 
is  published  quarterly  by  Washington 
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POSTMASTER:  Send  address  changes  to 
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Copyright  1999.  Washington  College. 

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PRINTED  IN  THE  U.S.A. 

ABOUT  THE  COVER:  Seniors  and  hun- 
dreds oi  well-wishers  heard  Commencement 
remarks  by  John  E  Kennedy  Jr,  Chen  Ning 
Yeng  and  Don  Higginbotham. 
Photo:  Jim  Graham  '31. 


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FEATURES 

The  Great  Fire  of  1916  16 

In  an  excerpt  from  a  new  College  history,  the  author  recounts  in 
Journalistic  detail  the  devastating  fire  that  destroyed  William  Smith 
Hall  and  nearly  shut  the  doors  of  Washington  College. 

Williniii  L.  Thoiiipsou  '70 


Another  Opening,  Another  Show  22 

There  are  few  things  as  nerve-wracking  as  Opening  Night — 
especially  when  you're  doing  a  really  big  musical  production.  Doug 
Hanks  reports  from  behind  the  scenes. 

Doug  Hanks  111 

DEPARTMENTS 


The  Reporter 


JFK  Jr.  brings  Kennedy  charisma  to  Washington  College's 
Commencement;  seniors  take  home  top  honors;  WC  bids  farewell  to 
two  beloved  profs;  Women  laxers  break  school  records;  College  hon- 
ors first  black  alumni;  Campaign  tops  $50  million. 


Faculty/Staff  Achievements 
Portfolio 

International  Culture  Night 

Alumni  Update 

Reunion  '99  is  a  revolutionary  success;  Alumnae  discuss  women's 
lifestyle  choices;  Two  join  the  Board  as  alumni  representatives. 

Class  Notes 


13 
15 

28 

30 
40 


Currents 

David  Snyder  '92,  an  emergency  response  volunteer  during  the  war  in 
Yugoslavia,  recounts  one  Kosovar  refugee's  story. 


COMMENCEMENT,  p.  2 


PORTFOLIO,  p.  15 


TRIAL  BY  FIRE,  p.  16 


OPENING  NIGHT  p.  22 


WASHINGTON-COLLtUE;MAG,\ZINE      /      SUMMER 


THE 


REPORTER 


John  F. 
Kennedy  Jr. 
Addresses 
Class  of  '99 

Higginbotham ,  Yang 
Also  Honored 


The  television  cameras 
may  have  been  focused 
on  John  F.  Kennedy  Jr., 
but  parents  and  friends  gath- 
ered on  campus  for  gradua- 
tion on  May  23  demon- 
strated that  this  day  be- 
longed to  the  members  of  the 
Class  of  1999.  They  rushed 
to  the  platform  to  snap  pic- 
tures of  their  sons  and 
daughters  receiving  their 
hard-earned  diplomas. 
The  seniors  cheered 
loudly  when  their  classmates 
were  honored,  and  again 
when  Kennedy  described  his 
"little  epiphany"  that  morn- 
ing. "Here  I've  named  my 
magazine  after  you,  you've 
got  this  nice  town 
KennedyviUe  down  the  road, 
and  I'm  thinkmg;  why  didn't 
I  go  to  Washington  College?" 

Founder  of  Reaching  Up, 
a  nonprofit  organization  that 
helps  train  and  educate  the 
working  poor  in  order  to  ad- 
vance their  careers  in  provid- 
ing health  services  for  people 
with  disabilities,  Kennedy 
praised  Washington  College 
students  for  their  own  acts  of 
service  to  others — tutoring 
schoolchildren,  volunteering 
for  Casey  Time,  working 
with  Special  Olympics  swim- 


"Here  I've  named  my  magazine  after  you, 

you've  got  this  nice  town  KennedyviUe  down 

the  road,  arid  I'm  thinki^ig:  why  didn't 

1  go  to  Washington  College?" 


mers.  "You  have  played  a  vi- 
tal part  in  your  community, 
and  1  know  that  your  good 
work  will  not  end  with 
graduation." 

Kennedy  called  his  work 
with  Reaching  Up  "a  tre- 
mendously rewarding  experi- 
ence" that  helps  the  most 
vulnerable  people — people 
with  disabilities,  the  frail  and 
elderly,  and  children  with 
special  needs — receive  more 
support  through  scholarships 
and  career  mentoring  for 
their  direct  caregivers.  Of 
the  400  Kennedy  Fellows,  he 


said,  half  have  earned 
bachelor's  degrees  and  25 
percent  have  completed  cer- 
tificate-level training.  Most 
importantly,  95  percent  are 
still  serving  the  disabled. 

In  recognizing  Kennedy's 
work  with  Reaching  Up, 
College  President  John  Toll 
said:  "The  Kennedy  name  is 
imbued  with  the  spirit  of 
compassion  and  the  ideal  of 
public  service  for  the  benefit 
of  those  in  our  nation  who 
are  oppressed,  underprivi- 
leged, or  forgotten.  Washing- 
ton College  applauds  Reach- 


John  F.  Kennedy  Jr., 
founder  of  Reaching 
Up,  made  a  rare 
commencement 
appearance  to  accept 
a  citation  in 
recognition  of  his 
charitable  service  on 
behalf  of  people  with 
disabilities. 

uig  Up  tor  positively 
changing  lives  and  sa- 
kites  John  F.  Kennedy 
jr.  as  a  model  humani- 
tarian who  has  put  his 
ideals  to  work." 

The  model  figure  of 
George  Washington 
loomed  large  too,  as 
an  Award  tor  Excel- 
lence was  presented  to 
Don  Higginbotham,  a 
distinguished  military 
historian  and  a 
George  Washington 
scholar. 
Higginbotham,  the  Dowd 
Professor  of  History  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina 
at  Chapel  Hill,  encouraged 
the  graduating  class  to  main- 
tain their  curiosity — to  ask 
questions,  to  challenge  the 
status  quo.  "As  you  go 
through  life  continuing  your 
process  of  education  that  be- 
gan at  Washington  College, 
be  mindful  that  learning  can 
only  be  open-ended  if  we  re- 
main open-minded." 

The  honorary  Doctor  of 
Science  degree  went  to  Chen 
Ning  Yang,  a  Nobel  Prize- 
winning  physicist  who.  Dr. 
Toll  said,  has  done  more  to 
advance  our  understanding 
of  the  basic  laws  of  nature 
than  any  other  living  person. 
"Like  Albert  Einstein,  he  has 
shown  an  amazing  ability  to 


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focus  on  the  critical  prob- 
lems and  to  present  brilliant 
original  insights.  As  one  ob- 
server said,  every  problem 
Yang  attacked  turn  to  gold, 
and  his  papers  always  have 
an  elegance  and  clarity  that 
make  them  models  for  all  sci- 
entists." 

For  33  years,  Yang  has 
been  the  Albert  Einstein 
Professor  of  Physics  and  Di- 
rector of  the  Institute  for 
Theoretical  Physics  at  the 
State  University  of  New 
York  at  Stony  Brook.  He 
called  those  years  the  "most 
satisfying  in  my  life"  and 
thanked  Dr.  Toll  for  con- 
vincing him  to  leave  the 
"ivory  tower"  of  Princeton's 
Institute  for  Advanced  Study 
to  help  him  establish  a  new 
research  university. 

Yang,  who  arrived  in  the 
United  States  in  1945  aboard 
a  Liberty  Ship  from  the 
China-Burma-India  theater, 
wished  each  of  the  members 
of  the  graduating  class  "the 
good  luck  to  lead  a  satisfac- 
tory career  and  to  meet  such 
people  who  move  society  as 
your  President  Toll." 

Citations  for  Excellence 
were  presented  to  two  model 


PHOTO  TRAMS  HOILIKGSWORTH  75 


Several  media 
outlets,  including 
NBC  Nightly  News, 
C-SPAN,  People 
Magazine  and 
Baltimore  and  D.C. 
television  stations, 
clamored  for  a  few 
moments  witti  John 
F.  Kennedy  Jr.,  the 
founding  editor  of 
George  Magazine. 
and  C.  N.  Yang,  one 
of  the  greatest  living 
theoretical 
physicists. 

alumni  as  well. 
Richard  E.  Hol- 
stein  '68,  a  pedi- 
atric dentist  involved  with 
Operation  Smile,  and  Rich- 
ard H.  Smith  '66,  a  research 
chemist  who  devises  com- 
puter models  for  AIDS  drugs, 
were  recognized  for  outstand- 
ing work  in  their  fields. 

Holstein,  who  runs  a  prac- 
tice treating  children,  adoles- 
cents and  the  handicapped 
in  Princeton,  NJ,  recently 
helped  forge  a  link  between 
Operation  Smile  and  Wash- 
ington College,  sending  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  1999 
on  an  internship  to  Romania 


last  summer. 

Smith,  a  professor  of 
chemistry  at  Western  Mary- 
land College,  is  a  visiting  sci- 
entist designing  drug  models 
for  the  National  Cancer 
Institute's  Frederick  Cancer 
Research  and  Development 
Center.  For  the  past  decade, 
his  research  has  examined 
the  molecular  mechanism  of 
the  AIDS  virus  and  its  resis- 
tant variants  in  reaction  to 
various  compounds  and  lev- 
els of  energy.   In  1995,  he 
was  named  Maryland's 


Chemist  of  the  Year. 

Two  professors  also  were 
honored  during  commence- 
ment.  Kathleen  J.  Mills,  pro- 
fessor of  music,  received  the 
Alumni  Association's  Distin- 
guished Teaching  Award. 
Donald  A.  McCoU,  assistant 
professor  of  art,  was  the  fac- 
ulty recipient  (see  also  stu- 
dent prizes  on  page  4)  ot 
Omicron  Delta  Kappa's  Gold 
Pentagon  Award  in  recogni- 
tion ot  his  work  with  students 
outside  the  classroom.  ► 

Luke  Owens 
Wins  Sophie 
Kerr  Prize 

A  2 1-year-old  poet  with 
"a  kind  ot  linguistic 
intuition"  was  awarded 
the  Sophie  Kerr  Prize,  the 
largest  undergraduate  literary 
prize  in  the  country.   Luke 
Eston  Owens'  winning  port- 
folio was  a  collection  ot  18 
poems  entitled  "Victotious 
Dust." 

Robert  Mooney,  director 
of  the  O'Neill  Literary'  House 
who  served  as  Owens'  thesis 
adviser,  described  Owens  as 
quiet  and  unassuming. 
"Luke  listens,  he  observes,  he 
learns  and  he  has  the  cour- 
age to  explore  experience 
with  a  kind  ot  linguistic  intu- 
ition," Mooney  said.  "Luke  is 
a  true  poet  with  a  true  voice. 


The  Commencement  platform 
party  assembled  on  the  steps  of 
Bunting  Hall  before  processing, 
(first  row,  left  to  right):  Pastor 
Steven  E.  Huhta,  father  of  a 
graduating  senior,  military 
historian  R.  Don  Higglnbotham, 
Nobel  Prize-wlnning  physicist 
Chen  NIng  Yang,  President  John 
Toll,  John  F.  Kennedy  Jr.,  and 
Provost  and  Dean  Joachim  J. 
Scholz.  (Back  row):  College 
Trustees  Shery  Kerr  and  Jack  S. 
Griswold,  and  Alumni  Association 
President  Glen  E.  Beebe  '81. 


WASHINOTON-COLLEGE-MAOAZINE      /      SUMMER-1999 


It's  a  voice  that  clearly  re- 
sponds to  the  promise  this 
award  intends  to  nurture. 
I'm  certain  we'll  hear  more 
from  him  in  the  years  to 
come." 

Owens,  who  was  gradu- 
ated magna  cum  laude  with 
departmental  honors  in  En- 
glish, also  was  awarded  the 
Henry  W.  C.  Catlin  Medal, 
given  in  recognition  of  his 
scholarship,  character,  lead- 
ership and  campus  citizen- 
ship, and  the  Emil  J.  C. 
Hildenbrand  Memorial 
Medal,  given  by  the  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  chapter  of  the 
Alumni  Association  to  the 
student  who  attains  the 
highest  average  in  English 
during  the  four  years  of  study. 

Thanks  to  a  vigorous 
stock  market,  the  Sophie 
Kerr  Prize  was  worth  $43,238 
this  year. 

The  following  students 
also  received  awards  during 
the  morning  ceremony: 

Marianne  Elizabeth 
Rodney,  a  psychology  major 
with  a  minor  in  sociology 
who  graduated  summa  cum 
laiide,  received  the  George 
Washington  Award  and 
Medal. 

Rakesh  Shankar,  who 
graduated  magna  cum  laude 
with  departmental  honors  in 


SOPHIE 


CHOICE 


Marianne  Rodney  received  the 
George  Washington  Medal  and 
Award  for  showing  "the  greatest 
promise  of  understanding  and 
realizing  In  lite  and  work  the 
Ideals  of  a  liberal  education." 


The  Art  of  Lifting  Stones 


by  Lulce  Owens  '99 


chology  major. 

Nanako  Iwata,  a  chemis- 
try major  who  graudated  cum. 
laude,  received  the  Jane 
Huston  Goodfellow  Memo- 
rial Prize,  i 


Lifting  rocks  in  the  forest  marsh, 

I  smell  the  decrepit  moss 

and  the  life  of  the  underneaths 

of  things  as  the  earth's  crust  crumbles. 

Insects  flee  the  light  and  cold  air 
like  criminals  under  search-lights, 
except  a  slug  who  creeps  away 
aloof  as  a  glacier. 

Ant  refugees  scurry  from  my  eye, 
tugging  their  larvae  like  luggage 
over  a  ravaged  countryside. 
But  they  do  not  perceive  me, 

only  the  feared,  fragmented  light. 


II. 


My  father  taught  me  this:  to  turn 

over  rocks  on  banks  of  streams,  to  glimpse 

crayfish  stirring  in  clouds  of  mud  mist, 

to  watch  turtlebugs  ball  up  like  porcupines, 

or  panic,  darting  into  crumbling  tunnels 
like  dreams  upon  waking.  But  this  above  all: 
to  return  gently  all  stones,  to  allow  dampness 
darkness,  to  let  dreams  creep 

hidden  under  sleep,  to  leave  things 
as  they  are,  snug  in  the  body  of  God. 
But  I  searched  the  streams  dry 
and  tossed  all  shadows  aside; 

I  wanted  God  to  have  no  place  to  hide. 


international  studies  and 
economics,  was  the  recipient 
of  the  Clark-Porter  Medal. 

The  Eugene  B.  Casey 
Medal  was  awarded  to  Krista 
L.  Northup,  a  sociology  ma- 
jor, and  to  Colleena 
Wiseman,  an  American  stud- 
ies major. 


The  Louis  L.  Goldstein 
'35  Award  went  to  Michael 
Patrick  Stafford,  a  political 
science  major  who  graduated 
magna  cum  laude. 

The  student  Gold  Penta- 
gon Award  (see  page  3  for 
faculty  award)  was  awarded 
to  Eric  B.  Johnson  Jr.,  a  psy- 


Luke  Owens  says  he  "will  keep 
writing  no  matter  what"  In  the 
aftermath  of  this  year's  Sophie 
Kerr  Prize. 

Student 
Leader  Wins 
Fellowship  to 
Bush  School 


Eric  Johnson  '99  has  a 
reputation  for  getting 
things  done.  The  two- 
term  president  of  the  Stu- 
dent Government  Associa- 
tion encouraged  fellow  stu- 
dents to  get  involved  in  the 
community,  to  improve  the 
campus  environment,  and  to 
re-examine  how  students  liv- 
ing within  a  diverse  commu- 
nity treat  one  another. 

Now,  with  a  fellowship  to 
the  George  Bush  School  of 
Government  and  Public  Ser- 
vice at  Texas  A&M,  Johnson 
hopes  to  continue  playing 
the  activist  role,  just  on  a 
larger  scale.  The  two-year 
program  results  in  two 
master's  degrees,  in  public 
service  and  in  public  admin- 
istration. It's  a  perfect 
launching  pad  for  a  career  in 


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government,  something  he 
hopes  to  pursue. 

Johnson,  a  psychology 
major,  has  been  a  visible 
campus  leader.  The  new 
Center  for  the  Study  of 
Black  Culturel  and  acohol- 
alternative   programming  in 
the  Student  Center  are  just 
some  of  the  visible  evidence 
of  Johnson's  efforts. 

"When  President  Bush 
publicly  encouraged  me  to 
aim  high  at  Winter  Convo- 
cation, I  knew  without  a 
doubt  that  I  was  to  fulfill  a 
life  of  public  service," 
Johnson  said.  "1  believe  that 
serving  others  is  such  an  im- 
portant calling  and  1  hope 
that  through  my  graduate 
education  at  the  George 
Bush  School  ot  Government 
and  Public  Service  1  will  be 
able  to  emulate  President 
Bush's  lifelong  commitment 
to  public  service."  i 


Eric  Johnson  has  been  a  catalyst 
for  campus  change. 


Yet  Another 
Toast 

The  College's  Alumni 
and  College  Relations 
offices  have  won  a 
prize  in  the  national  college 
competition  for  specific  me- 
dia relations  programs. 
CASE,  the  Council  for  Ad- 
vancement of  Secondary 
Education,  judged  that  our 


Alumni  Toast  to  George 
Washington  on  his  birthday, 
which  was  covered  by  na- 
tional news  and  network 
television,  met  the  criteria  of 
imaginatively  and  effectively 
capturing  our  audience's  at- 
tention and  drawing  that  at- 
tention to  broader  institu- 
tional goals. 

In  her  letter  announcing 
that  Washington  College  had 
won  third  place  in  a  field  of 
37  entries,  Kerry  Delany, 
manager  of  News  Services  at 
the  University  of  Toronto, 
wrote:   "All  the  judges,  my- 
self included,  were  most  im- 
pressed by  your  program  and 
had  a  good  laugh  over  your 
'Top  10'  reasons...."  ► 

Cavaliere 
Takes  Top 
Prize  In  Art 
Show 

The  annual  Senior  Art 
Show  was  dominated 
by  a  bold  triptych  of 
orchids,  variegated  sage,  St. 
John's  wort,  ladies'  mantle, 
echinacea  and  aloe.  A  trio  of 
stunning  orchids,  a  pair  of 
cone  flowers  and  a  small  can- 
vas of  root  vegetables  and 
kohlrabi  rounded  out  the  ex- 
hibit of  medicinal  plants  that 
made  the  viewer  feel  better 
just  by  looking  at  them. 

Senior  Christina 
Cavaliere,  a  double  major  in 
art  and  environmental  stud- 
ies, had  found  a  way  to  inte- 
grate her  interests  in  art  and 
science. 

For  her  efforts,  she  was 
presented  with  the  annual 
Lynette  Nielsen  Art  Award, 
given  annually  to  acknowl- 
edge excellence  and  achieve- 
ment in  the  visual  arts.  The 
late  Mrs.  Nielsen,  in  whose 
memory  the  award  was  estab- 
lished, was  an  art  teacher  at 
Washington  College  who 


served  on  the  College's  Kiard 
of  trustees. 

Cavaliere  pulled  together 
her  senior  show  in  record 
time — she  had  spent  the  first 
halt  of  her  senior  year  on 
academic  exchange  at  the 
Chiang  Mai  University  in 
Thailand,  and  briefly  consid- 
ered developing  a  show  re- 
flecting her  study  of  Thai 
folk  art. 

In  the  end  both 
Cavaliere 's  senior  art  project 
and  her  senior  thesis  reflect 
her  interest  in  art  and  envi- 
ronment. She  intends  to  pur- 
sue graduate  studies  in  holis- 
tic medicine,  i 


WC  Hosts 

Research 

CoUoqium 

Say  "Centennial  Con- 
ference" and  most 
people  think  of  ath- 
letic competition  among  the 
region's  liberal  arts  colleges. 
Yet  the  1 1  member  institu- 
tions share  a  bond  beyond 
the  sports  tradition — the 
value  of  academic  success  in 
the  lives  of  their  sttidents. 

When  Washington  Col- 
lege hosted  the  fourth  an- 


PHOTO  GIBSON  E  ANTHONY 


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nual  CentL-nnial  Ctmference 
Student  Research  Collo- 
quium (CCSRC)  in  April, 
50  students  shared  their  re- 
search projects  reflecting  a 
broad  range  of  academic  pur- 
suits. In  addition  to  scientists 
investigating  such  topics  as 
microorganisms  and  the  cog- 
nitive effects  of  herbs  on  do- 
mestic mice,  arts  and  hu- 
manities students  shared 
their  work  investigating  im- 
provisational  theater  and  the 
Zen  philosophy,  the  dual  role 
of  setting  in  Eastern  Shore 
literature,  relativity  of  nature 
in  Latin  America,  and  the 
economics  ot  rural  India.  ► 

Professor 

Tatum 

Retires 

Nancy  Tatum,  the 
Ernest  A.  Howard  Pro- 
fessor ot  English  Lit- 
erature, has  retired  after  38 
years  of  teaching.  Friends 
and  colleagues  commended 
Tatum  for  her  dedicated 
teaching,  her  loyal  support  of 
the  arts  and  her  leadership 
role  on  the  faculty. 

Richard  Gillin,  chair  of 
the  English  department,  said 


that  her  retirement  marks  "a 
distinctive  transition  in  the 
life  of  the  College.  Her  voice 
was  singular  and  individual 
in  defense  of  academic  free- 
dom. It  was  the  voice  of  tra- 
dition and  duty,  appealing  for 
a  higher  standard  of  writing 
and  thinking.  She  believed 
in  the  power  of  great  litera- 
ture to  speak  to  students." 

Tatum  joined  the  English 
Department  (acuity  in  1960, 
immediately  after  earning 
her  doctorate  at  Bryn  Mawr 
College.  A  Shakespearean 
scholar,  she  quickly  rose 
through  the  ranks  and 
proved  her  mettle  in  the 
classroom  and  in  faculty  af- 
fairs, and  was  a  strong  advo- 
cate for  additional  scholar- 
ship funding  in  order  to  at- 
tract bright  students. 

She  has  been  a  full  profes- 
sor since  1 969  and  was 
named  the  Ernest  A.  Howard 
Professor  of  English  Litera- 
ture in  1979. 

"It's  time,"  she  says  of  her 
decision  to  retire.  "I  have 
other  things  I  want  to  do." 
Tatum  served  tor  several 
years  as  chair  of  the  English 
department  and  served  twice 
as  faculty  representative  to 
the  Board  ot  Visitors  and 
Governors.  Presented  with 
the  Lindback  Award  for  Dis- 
tinguished Teaching 
in  1975,  she  is  re- 
membered by  hun- 
dreds of  students  as 
their  most  influen- 
tial professor,  with  a 
knack  for  asking  the 
right  questions. 

Jennifer  Harrison 
'90  calls  Tatum  her 
"favorite  teacher  of 
all  time"  because 
her  teaching  re- 
vealed the  power  of 
Shakespeare's  words 
and  caused  students 
to  feel  they  were 

Nancy  Tatum  always 
took  time  to  help  her 
students  improve  their 
writing. 

PHOTO  PEGGY  FOX 


Kathy  Mills  looks 
forward  to  a  change  ot 
scenery  and  a  new 
career  in  New  Mexico. 


participants  in  the 
plays.  "I  had  not 
planned  to  focus 
my  thesis  on 
Shakespeare  until  I 
took  her  class. 
With  her  subtle  in- 
fluence, she  en- 
couraged me  to  be- 
come a  better  criti- 
cal thinker  and 
helped  shape  my 
career.  She  is  a  role 
model  for  my  own 
teaching." 

"Her  interests 
go  far  beyond  what 
she  teaches,"  says  Garry 
Clarke,  professor  ot  music, 
"and  she  thinks  nothing  ot 
hopping  in  her  car  and  driv- 
ing to  the  Met  to  catch  a 
Saturday  afternoon  perfor- 
mance, then  driving  back  to 
campus  in  time  for  a  student 
recital  or  dramatic  produc- 
tion. She  has  been  tremen- 
dously supportive." 

Tatum  intends  to  remain 
in  the  Chestertown  area  and 
continue  her  service  to  the 
board  ot  the  Washington 
College  Concert  Series.  ► 


Professor 
Mills  Heeds 
The  Call  Of 
The  West 


M 


any  people  yearn  to 
break  free  of  the 
daily  grind,  quit 
their  jobs  and  move  across 
the  country.  Kathy  Mills,  a 
pianist  and  choral  director 
who  has  taught  in  the  music 
department  for  the  past  27 
years,  is  actually  doing  it. 
She  and  her  husband, 


John  Parr,  are  moving  to 
Taos,  New  Mexico,  to  start 
new  lives  in  a  place  they 
have  visited  frequently  and 
have  dreamed  of  making  a 
permanent  home. 

"I've  always  wanted  to  do 
new  things,  and  I've  had  so 
many  opportunities  for  that 
here,"  Mills  said.  "I  taught 
music  education  for  a  while, 
and  that  was  wonderful. 
Then  I  taught  a  jazz  class, 
and  blues,  and  then  I  devel- 
oped a  music  and  gender 
course  that  is  very  important 
to  me.  Still,  after  much  in- 
trospection I  realized  that  all 
I  could  do  now  at  Washing- 
ton College  was  get  older, 
and  1  wondered  whether  I 
would  still  be  able  to  pull  the 
piano  out  of  the  closet  in 
Norman  James  Theatre  when 
I  was  65." 

Mills,  who  is  10  years 
from  retirement  age,  says  the 
move  to  Taos  is  appealing 
because  it  is  so  different  geo- 
graphically from  Maryland's 
Eastern  Shore,  with  its 
mountains  and  wide  open 
spaces,  and  because  of  its 
strong  arts  community.  She 
looks  forward  to  having  more 
time  for  her  own  musical 
pursuits,  to  practice  and 
learn  more  music  by  female 


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composers,  and  perhaps  to 
join  a  chamber  music  en- 
semble. 

During  her  tenure  at 
Washington  College,  Mills 
has  given  solo  and  duo  recit- 
als as  well  as  countless  per- 
formances on  piano  as  part  of 
faculty  and  student  recitals. 
She  directed  several  choral 
ensembles,  including  the 
College  Community  Chorus, 
which  she  established  in 
1981.  She  served  as  depart- 
ment chair  for  several  years, 
and  recently  has  directed  the 
Gender  Studies  program. 

Mills  says  she  will  miss 
the  interaction  with  students 
and  the  sense  ot  sharing  that 
teaching  offers,  hut  she  is 
definitely  leaving  Washing- 
ton College  on  a  high  note. 
"The  Washington  Scholars 
program  has  helped  our  de- 
partment so  much  by  attract- 
ing students  with  musical 
ability  and  interest,"  she  says. 
"And  students  today  are 
more  gender-sensitive  and 
much  better-attuned  to  the 
complexities  of  gender  issues, 
so  that's  been  very  reward- 
ing." I 

Washington 
Post  Buys 
Student  Story 

What  started  as  a  wry 
look  at  Birthday 
Ball  tor  a  writing 
class  has  landed  sophomore 
Chris  Klimas  one  of  the  most 
coveted  coups  in  journalism; 
a  feature  story  in  The  Wash- 
ington Post  Magazine. 

The  3,000-word  first- 
person  article  Klimas  wrote 
recalling  his  anxiety,  disap- 
pointment and  excitement  in 
attending  WC's  premiere  so- 
cial event  charmed  magazine 
editor  Bob  Thompson  during 
his  visit  as  a  guest  lecturer  to 
Professor  Robert  Day's  cre- 
ative non-fiction  class. 


Ot  the  manuscripts  he  re- 
viewed, the  Klimas  story 
stood  out.  Days  later,  the  En- 
glish major  and  incoming 
Collegian  editor  was  inking  a 
contract  with  The  Was/iington 
Post. 

"1  was  really  blown  away 
at  first.   1  called  it  'awe- 
some,'" the  20-year-old 
Klimas  recalled.  "Professor 
Day  thought  that  was  pretty 
amusing." 

At  The  Post,  editors  were 
hooked  by  Klimas's  sophisti- 
cated touch  and  youthful 
take  on  an  event  as  exhila- 
rating and  excruciating  as  a 
school  dance. 

"It's  a  very  odd  combina- 
tion of  youth  and  maturity," 
said  Washington  Post  Maga- 
zine managing  editor  Tom 
Frail.  "What's  really  special 
about  this  story  is  Chris 
looks  at  the  world  through 
the  eyes  of  a  young  person. 
His  skill  in  talking  about 
that  is  really  mature. 

"It's  not  just  a  matter  ot 
style,"  Frail  continued.  "This 
narrative  is  so  well  con- 
trolled, it  moves  along  so 
well,  It's  so  keenly  observed, 
it's  so  powerfully  telt — it  just 
seemed  like  a  natural  to  me. 

"This  is  the  kind  of  work  I 
want  to  put  in  my  magazine." 

For  Day,  himself  a  con- 
tributor to  The  Washington 
Post  Magazine,  seeing  Klimas 
grab  a  prominent  byline  has 
been  quite  a  reward. 

"1  still  get  excited  when 
publishers  or  editors  call 
about  my  own  writing,  but 
there  is  a  curious — and  very 
great — pleasure  when  they 
call  about  the  work  of  one  of 
your  students." 

Klimas  doubts  he'll  try  to 
make  a  living  as  a  writer. 
Instead,  he's  considering  a 
career  in  computers  (his  mi- 
nor is  computer  science) 
with  a  heavy  dose  of  writing 
on  the  side. 

"It  would  be  nice  to  be 
published  in  The  Washington 
Post  Magazine  again,"  Klimas 
said.  I 


Three  Join 
Board 

The  Board  ot  Visitors 
and  Governors  wel- 
come three  new  mem- 
bers to  its  ranks,  effective 
July  1.  Joining  the  college 
leadership  are  Margaret 
Tapley  Bennett,  Carla  D. 
Hayden,  and  Matthew  T. 
Weir  '90. 

Mrs.  Bennett,  who  has  en- 
joyed a  life  ot  worldwide 
travel — first  as  the  daughter 
and  granddaughter  ot  U.S. 
ambassadors,  then  as  the  wife 
of  a  career  foreign  service  of- 
ficer who  became  ambassa- 
dor— has  been  a  strong  sup- 
porter of  Washington 
College's  international  pro- 
grams. She  meets  each  se- 
mester with  Washington 
College  students  going  over- 
seas to  give  them  guidance. 
Her  early  education  was 
provided  in  schools  ranging 
from  Buenos  Aires  to  Berlin, 
to  the  Foxcroft  School  in 
Middleburg,  VA,  where  she 
recei\'cd  her  diploma.  She 
attended  the  JuUiard  Insti- 
tute and  Barnard  College 


concurrently  until  she  mar- 
ried W.  Tapley  Bennett  Jr. 
Mr.  Bennett's  foreign  service 
career  took  the  couple  and 
their  five  children  to  Vienna, 
Athens,  Santo  Domingo, 
Lisbon,  New  York  (the 
United  Nations),  Brussels 
(NATO),  and  Washington, 
D.C.  (Department  of  State). 
Dr.  Hayden  is  director  of 
the  Enoch  Pratt  Free  Library 
in  Baltimore,  and  is  an  ad- 
junct faculty  member  of  the 
College  of  Library  and  Infor- 
mation Services  of  the  Uni- 
versity ot  Maryland  at  Col- 
lege Park.  Hayden  is  highly 
regarded  in  the  American  li- 
brary community  for  her  ef- 
forts to  ensure  the  quality  of 
graduate  library  education 
and  tor  her  role  in  revitaliz- 
ing the  Pratt  Library's  tradi- 
tion ot  innovative  library 
leadership.  She  has  champi- 
oned a  number  of  consumer- 
appealing  library  projects  at 
the  Pratt,  including  Student 
Express,  a  multimedia  center 
tor  students  in  middle  and 
high  schools;  electronic  lit- 
eracy programs  for  children 
at  risk;  and  the  Sailot 
project,  a  state-wide  elec- 
tronic network  serving  all 


HEARD       AROUND       CAMPUS 

On  Poetry... 

"If  a  poem  is  written  well,  it 
was  written  with  the  poet's 
voice  and  for  a  voice.  Reading 
a  poem  silently  instead  of  say- 
ing a  poem  is  like  the  differ- 
ence between  staring  at  sheet 
music  and  actually  humming 
or  playing  the  music  on  an  in- 
strument." 

— Robert  Pinsky,  U.  S.  Poet 
Laureate  Consultant  in  Poetry 
to  the  Library  of  Congress 


PHOTO:  SlOniO  ESTRADA 


Robert  Pinsky  visited  campus  last  March  as  part  of  Washington 
College's  annual  Sophie  Kerr  celebration. 


WASHINGTON-COLLEGE.  MAGAZINE      /      SUMMER.I999 


types  of  libraries  and  their 
users. 

Prior  to  assiiminj^  the 
leadership  of  the  Pratt  in 
1993,  Hayden  served  as  the 
chief  librarian  of  the  Chi- 
cago Public  Library.  She 
earned  both  her  master's  ani.1 
doctorate  in  library/informa- 
tion science  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  hi  1995  she 
was  named  the  Librarian 
of  the  Year  by  Library  Journal. 
An  active  civic  leader,  she  is 
the  recipient  of  the  Legacy  of 
Literacy  Award  from  the 
DuBois  Circle  of  Baltimore 
and  was  named  among 
Maryland's  Top  100  Women 
in  Warfield's  Business  Record. 

Matt  Weir  is  a  strong  sup- 
porter ot  the  arts.  He  serves 
as  chairman  ot  the  Washing- 
ton College  Friends  ot  the 
Arts,  and  is  a  member  oi  the 
Washington  College  Cam- 
paign Cabinet.   He  endowed 
the  Mary  Martin  Scholarship 
for  drama  students  in  honor 
of  his  graridmother  and  was  a 
major  supporter  ot  the  recent 
renovation  ot  Norman  James 
Theatre. 

A  graduate  of  the  Avon 
Old  Farms  Preparatory 
School,  Weir  earned  a 
bachelor's  degree  in  interna- 
tional studies  from  Washing- 
ton College.  After  teaching 
biology  in  Tanzania  as  a  part 


ot  Global  Volunteers,  he  re- 
turned to  the  United  States 
to  become  an  account  man- 
ager with  Clean  Harbors  En- 
vironmental Services.  From 
1994  to  1996  he  served  as  an 
independent  consultant  on 
environmental  services  tor 
businesses  in  Mexico  and  Af- 
rica. ► 

Women's 
Lacrosse 
Rewrites 
Record  Books 


w 


ith  a  12-9  triumph 
on  the  road  against 
Gettysburg  College 
May  1,  the  Washington  Col- 
lege women's  lacrosse  team 
finished  the  1999  season 
with  a  12-5  overall  record 
and  a  6-3  mark  in  the  Cen- 
tennial Conference,  good  for 
a  tie  with  Gettysburg  for 
third  place  in  the  confer- 
ence. The  Shorewomen's  12 
victories  this  year  broke  the 
school  reccird  for  wins  in  a 
season.  The  previous  record 
was  1 1,  set  in  1989  when  the 
team  finished  11-5.  The  last 
time  Washington  College 
had  a  winning  season  \n 


Maggie  Kilroy  is  the  College's 
all-time  leader  in  assists. 


PHOTO:  TRISHA  McGEE  '8 


women  s  lacrosse  was  in 
1991,  with  a  7-5  record. 

This  season  was  a  dra- 
matic turnaround  from  1998, 
when  the  squad  finished  4- 1 3 
overall  and  2-8  in  the  Cen- 
tennial Conference.  Three  of 
the  five  losses  this  year  were 
against  teams  that  were  na- 
tionally ranked — St.  Mary's 
(#6),  Salisbury  State  (*17), 
and  Ursinus  (*20). 

The  1999  Shorewomen 
squad  was  led  by  a  group  of 
dedicated  seniors:  Heather 
Cranmer  (Voorhees,  NJ), 
Erin  Gillin  (Chestertown, 
MD),  Kim  Hardesty  (Phoe- 
nix, MD),  Elizabeth 
Hoogenboom  (Washington, 
D.C.),  Mandy  Pare  (Colora, 
MD),  and  Katie  Warwick 
(Flourtown,  PA). 

Several  Shorewomen 
broke  records  during  the  sea- 
son. Senior  midtielder  Pare 
set  the  record  for  draw  con- 
trols in  a  career,  with  157. 
Junior  midtielder  Maggy 
Kilroy  (Towson,  MD)  be- 
came Washington's  all-time 
assists  leader,  and  her  total 
now  stands  at  79.  Another 
junior,  goalkeeper  Sarah 
Moore  (Chestertown,  MD)  is 
the  record-holder  tor  saves  in 
a  career,  with  626.  Defender 
Rosanne  Alastra  (Fort  Mill, 
SC),  another  junior,  broke 
the  record  for  most  caused 
turnovers  in  a  game  with  10 
against  Gettysburg. 

Some  of  Washington's 
biggest  wins  this  year  were  in 
Conference  games.  On 
March  25,  the  Shorewomen 
beat  visiting  Franklin  &. 
Marshall,  then  ranked  sixth 
in  the  nation,  by  a  score  of 
13-12.  Washington  had  not 
defeated  F&M  since  an  11- 
10  victory  in  1984.  The 
Shorewomen  defeated  West- 
ern Maryland,  9-3,  on  the 
road  on  March  30.  WC's  last 
win  against  the  Green  Ter- 
rors was  in  1991  (16-7).  The 
season-ending  victory  against 
Gettysburg  was  also  the  first 
since  1991  (12-11  in  over- 
time). 


According  to  Washington 
head  coach  Eleanor  Shriver 
'93,  the  team's  unity  and  be- 
lief in  themselves  was  the 
key  to  their  success.  Both  the 
team  and  the  coaching  staff, 
which  also  included  assis- 
tants Sara  Donnaruma  and 
Ken  Noble,  approached  the 
season  with  a  positive  out- 
look, forgetting  the  difficult 
springs  of  the  past  and  focus- 
ing on  a  winning  season. 

"The  coaches  always 
knew  the  players  had  the  tal- 
ent and  abilities,"  says 
Shriver.  "It  was  the  team 
that  needed  to  see  this  and 
make  things  happen  on  the 
field.  The  players  were  ulti- 
mately responsible  for  the 
turnaround,  not  the 
coaches."  ► 

Cousineau 
Publishes 
Book  on 
Beckett 


English  Professor  Tho- 
mas J.  Cousineau  has 
been  fascinated  with 
the  work  of  Irish  writer 
Samuel  Beckett  since  discov- 
ering Waiting  for  Godot  in  his 
freshman  English  class  at 
Boston  College  in  the  early 
1960s.  Having  previously 
authored  a  book  entirely  de- 
voted to  Godot  and  edited 
"Beckett  in  France,"  a  special 
issue  of  the  Journal  of  Beckett 
Studies,  he  has  now  published 
After  the  Final  No,  a  study  of 
the  work  that  Beckett  him- 
self considered  his  master- 
piece: the  trilogy  of  novels 
Mollo;v,  Malone  Dies  and  The 
Unnamahle. 

This  new  book — whose 
title  alludes  to  "After  the  fi- 
nal no  there  comes  a  yes," 
the  opening  line  of  a  poem 
by  Wallace  Stevens — argues 
that,  in  spite  of  the  nihilistic 
vision  with  which  Beckett's 


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work  is  frequently  associated, 
the  trilogy  itself  does  success- 
fully achieve  its  goal  of  dis- 
covering a  new  foundation 
for  human  lite  after  having 
witnessed  the  collapse  of  pre- 
viously erected  foundations. 
The  book  analyzes  Beckett's 
unmasking  of  the  idols  to 
which  human  beings  histori- 
cally have  looked  for  mean- 
ing— the  matriarchal  and  pa- 
triarchal figures  around 
which  MoUoy  is  organized 
and  the  isolated  self  as  repre- 
sented by  Malone — and  the 
quest  for  a  pure,  authentic 
voice. 

The  Beckett  specialist 
who  recommended 
Cousineau's  book  for  publica- 
tion noted  that  it  possessed 
the  clarity  and  lucidity  that 
had  been  hallmarks  of  his 
previously  published  work, 
qualities  that  are  especially 
welcome  in  a  study  of 
Beckett's  "famous  and  formi- 
dable trilogy."   He  also  ob- 
served that  Cousineau's  ap- 
proach to  the  trilogy  places  it 
in  the  company  ot  other  re- 
cent books  on  Beckett's  work 
that,  while  not  neglecting  its 
negative  elements,  draw  at- 
tention as  well  to  its 
affirmations. 

Cousineau,  who  jiiined 
the  Washington  College  fac- 
ulty in  1978,  received  his 
doctorate  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  California  at  Davis 
and  began  his  teaching  career 
at  French  universities,  to 
which  he  regularly  returns. 
Having  completed  what  he 


In  his  new  book.  Cousineau 
explores  how  Beckett  comes 
to  redefine  human  existence 
within  his  masterpiece  trilogy. 

expects  to  he  his  last  book  on 
Beckett,  he  is  now  research- 
ing a  commissioned  study  of 
the  postmodernist  novels  of 
AListrian  writet  Thomas 
Bernhard  and  writing  a  book 
that  deals  with  the  figure  of 
the  scapegoat  in  such  mod- 
ernist novels  as  Heart  of 
Darkness,  The  Great  Gatshy 
and  To  the  Lighthouse.  I 


Black  Culture 
Study  Center 
Opens 


Junior  Christine  Lincoln 
says  she  likes  the  fact 
that  the  College's  new 
Center  for  the  Study  of 
Black  Culture  is  on  the  edge 
of  the  campus.  Housed  in  the 
former  headquarters  of  the 
Department  of  Public  Safety, 
the  Center  is  accessible  to 
people  outside  the  College 
community. 

But  the  aims  of  the  Cen- 
ter for  the  Study  of  Black 
Culture  go  beyond  making 
town  residents  feel  welcome. 
Despite  the  name,  the  Cen- 
ter IS  evolving  into  a 
multicultutal  hub,  with  more 


than  1 ,000  books  and  mov- 
ies, mainly  about  black  cul- 
ture but  incorporating  Asian 
and  other  influences  as  well. 
"All  cultutes  need  to  be  rep- 
resented in  such  a  center," 
she  said. 

Part  library,  part  reading 
room,  part  conference  room, 
the  Center  offers  lending 
privileges  to  students  and 
visitors  alike,  with  the  objec- 
tive to  broaden  per- 
spectives and  to  im- 
prove race  relations 
among  the  students 
on  campus  and  be- 
tween the  campus 
and  the  surrounding 
town. 

"The  College  has 
the  responsibility  to 
set  the  pace  for  di- 
versity," said  Lin- 
coln, "to  get  (local) 
businesses  to  under- 
stand how  the  Col- 
lege IS  changing. 
With  an  increasing 
number  of  international  stu- 
dents and  students  from 
varying  ethnic  backgrounds 
filtering  into  Chestertown, 
the  surrounding  community 
is  going  to  have  to  change 
with  the  face  of  the  campus." 
The  Center  opening  came 
two  years  after  Lincoln  and  a 
group  of  other  students  sub- 
mitted a  campus  racial  cli- 
mate report  to  College  Presi- 
dent John  Toll.  The  report 
pointed  to  a  number  of  racial 

issues  on  campus 
^f  "     and  offered  a  com- 
prehensive plan  to 
address  those  prob- 
lems. 

The  report  in- 
cluded suggestions 
to  hire  more  mi- 
nority faculty  and 
staff  and  to  provide 
open  forums  to 
promote  the  dis- 
cussion of  racial  is- 

Chrlstlne  Lincoln 
helped  establish  the 
Center  to  enhance 
racial  understanding. 


sues.  A  minority  adviser  was 
hired  in  the  Student  Affairs 
office  and  increased  advertis- 
ing for  minority  positions  led 
to  a  new  hire  in  the  English 
department.  While  the  fac- 
ulty already  has  a  policy  in 
place,  Lincoln  said  the  Col- 
lege is  now  working  on  an 
institution- wide  affirmative 
action  plan.  I 


PHOTO    KENT  COUNTY  NEWS 


The  Deckers  were 
ArborJlay  honorees. 

Celebrating 
Golden  Trees 
And  Years 

Students  celebrated  Ar- 
bor Day  by  reading  tree 
poems  and  gathering 
outside  Minta  Martin  Hall  to 
dedicate  a  Golden  Willow 
tree  in  recognition  of  the 
50th  wedding  anniversary  of 
Alonzo  G.  and  Virginia  Gent 
Decker  "Planting  a  tree  is  an 
act  of  optimism  and  kind- 
ness, a  labor  of  love,  and  a 
commitment  to  stewardship," 
College  President  John  Toll 
said.  "On  this  Atbor  Day,  we 
plant  a  tree  to  honor  AI  and 
Virginia  Decker,  who  have 
demonstrated  time  and  time 
again  their  optimism  about 
the  future  of  Wa.shington 
College." 

The  Deckers  are  generous 
supporters  of  Washington 
College.  The  College's  new 
arboretum  was  named  for 
Mrs.  Decker  last  fall,  t 


WASHINGTON-COLLEGE-MAGAZINE      /      SUMMER-1999 


College  Pays 
Tribute  To 
First  Black 
Students 


Washington  College 
recently  honored 
four  of  its  pioneer- 
ing students,  the  first  black 
undergraduates  to  integrate 
what  was,  in  the  1960s,  an 
all-white  campus. 

At  a  weekend  organized 
by  the  current  Black  Student 
Alliance,  the  four  Washing- 
ton College  graduates  re- 
called their  groundbreaking 
college  experience. 

"One  night  the  girls  in  my 
dorm  decided  to  go  to  the 
movies  in  Chestertown," 
Patricia  Goldbolt  White  '64 
recalled  during  a  panel  ses- 
sion on  campus.  "Once  we'd 
bought  our  tickets  and  gone 
inside,  1  was  pulled  aside  by 
the  manager  and  told  that  1 
had  to  sit  upstairs  in  the  bal- 
cony. 1  went  sadly  up  the 
stairs  and  settled  in. 

"The  next  thing  1  knew 
the  black  balcony  was  all 


a-bustle.  The  white  girls 
from  my  dorm  had  come, 
v\'ith  popcorn  and  Cokes,  to 
settle  in  around  me." 

White  is  now  chairman  of 
the  science  department  of 
Booker  T  Washington  High 
School  in  Norfolk,  and  the 
author  of  a  book  of  inspira- 
tional poetry.  Evolution  of 
Espirit'dP.G. 

When  White  came  to 
WC,  there  was  only  one 
other  black  student  on  cam- 
pus, a  sophomore  named 
Thomas  E.  Morris.  Morris 
died  in  1995  after  a  25-year 
career  as  a  mathematics 
teacher  in  Baltimore  schools. 

"His  students  continued 
to  drop  by  our  house  for 
years  and  years  after  they'd 
graduated  from  his  classes. 
He  loved  computers  and 
reading,"  his  wife, 
Mellasenah,  told  the  audi- 
ence while  accepting  his 
honors.  "But  most  of  all  he 
loved  young  people,  his  sons 
and  daughter  and  his  stu- 
dents. What  he  learned  at 
Washington  College  made  a 
difference  in  his  life  and,  in 
his  turn,  he  made  a  differ- 
ence in  the  many,  many  lives 
that  touched  his." 

Dale  Patterson  Adams  '65 


was  the  first  African  Ameri- 
can tapped  for  the  Washing- 
ton College  Board  of  Visitors 
and  Gtwernors,  a  post  she 
has  held  for  14  years.  A  re- 
tired chemist  living  in  Chat- 
tanooga, TN,  Adams  urged 
current  students  to  remain 
active  on  campus. 

"Struggle  and  strength. 
Two  eight-letter  words," 
Adams  said.  "Strength  and 
struggle.  You  will  find  these 
in  proportion  to  each  other 
at  Washington  College,  in 
the  world  and  in  your  selves 
throughout  your  lives.  Many 
things  that  needed  to  be 
changed  have  changed. 
Many  things  that  need  to 
change  have  not  yet." 

During  the  talk,  Marty 
Smith  embraced  Patricia 
Godbolt  White  for  the  first 
time  in  35  years.  "She 
wouldn't  let  me  do  that  often 
as  an  undergraduate,"  he  ex- 
plained to  everyone  in  the 
room.  By  the  time  Smith  ar- 
rived as  a  freshman  in  1963, 
there  were  two  other  African 
Americans  studying  at  Wash- 
ington College:  senior 
Patricia  Godbolt  and  junior 
Dale  Patterson. 

"Pat  was  my  mentor," 
Smith  said,  "but  she  kept  me 


at  arm's  length.  Pat  and  Dale 
told  me  on  the  day  I  met 
them  that  we  were  not  going 
to  'clump.'  1  was  going  to 
have  to  make  my  own  way  as 
they  had. 

"So  I  did.  I  made  friends 
with  my  classmates  and  my 
teammates.  Friends  1  would 
keep  for  life.  I'd  be  standing 
in  one  of  these  white  clumps 
and  Pat  would  walk  by  with 
her  friends,  nod  at  me  and 
smile  this  great  smile.  She 
was  a  good  teacher  then,  just 
as  she  is  now." 

At  his  Washington  Col- 
lege graduation,  Marty  was 
the  recipient  of  the  Clark- 
Porter  Medal,  which  is 
awarded  to  the  student 
whose  character  and  personal 
integrity  have  most  clearly 
enhanced  the  quality  of  cam- 
pus life.  He  went  on  to  re- 
ceive his  master's  and  doc- 
toral degrees  in  economics 
from  Cornell  University. 

A  former  fellow  of  the 
Brookings  Institute  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  Marty  is  cur- 
rently economic  analyst  for 
the  Congressional  Budget 
Office. 

"My  advice  to  you," 
Marty  told  the  current  stu- 
dents:  "Do  not  let  your 
Washington  College  experi- 
ence be  directed  only  toward 
the  subjects  in  which  you  are 
most  competent  and  the 
people  with  whom  you  are 
most  comfortable. 

"If  you  do,  you  alone  will 
be  responsible  for  your  limi- 
tations. Meet  all  kinds  of 
people,  meet  all  kinds  of 
challenges  and  you  will  be 
happier  for  having  met 
them."  ► 


The  family  of  Thomas  Morris  '62, 
WC's  first  African  American 
alumnus,  met  with  President  Toll 
and  students.  Pictured  (left  to 
right)  are  Danielle  Williams  '00, 
Jared  Morris,  a  recent  graduate  of 
^        Howard  University  Law  School, 
Mellasenah  Morris  with  son  Miles, 
Dr.  Toll,  Kla  Massey  '00  and 
Dericka  Scott  01. 


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5UMMER-1999     /      WASHINGTON-COLLEGE-  MAGAZINE 


Campaign  for 
Washington's 
College  Tops 
$50  Million 


The  Campaign  for 
Washington's  College 
reached  a  record- 
breaking  $50  million  in  June. 
Just  nine  months  after  pub- 
licly proclaiming  the  $72 
million  fund-raising  goal,  the 
Campaign  has  surpassed  the 
$43.7  million  raised  in  the 
only  other  major  capital 
campaign  ever  undertaken  by 
the  College,  the  Campaign 
for  Excellence,  which  was 
completed  in  1990. 

In  exceeding  the  Cam- 
paign for  Excellence,  the 
Campaign  for  Washington's 
College  also  has  raised  more 
dollars  than  any  other  tund- 
raising  effort  on  Maryland's 
Eastern  Shore.  Success  will 
provide  funds  for  new  aca- 
demic programs,  scholar- 
ships, imprc^ved  facilities, 
and  endowment. 

"We  are  delighted  with 
the  unprecedented  level  of 
support  tor  this  campaign," 
Campaign  Chair  Jack  S. 
Griswold  said.  "Since  we 
publicly  announced  a  goal  of 
$72  million  in  September 
1998  with  $40  million  in 
commitments,  we  have  been 
extremely  pleased  with  the 
level  of  leadership  gifts  that 
have  pushed  the  Campaign 
to  more  than  $50  million. 

"In  particular,"  he  noted, 
"we  are  encouraged  by  the 
breadth  of  support.  To  date, 
48  donors  have  made  gifts  of 
$100,000  or  more,  reflecting 
a  broad-based  endorsement 
of  our  efforts." 

The  largest  single  com- 
mitment of  the  campaign  so 
far,  $5  million  from  The 
Starr  Foundation  of  New 
York,  is  launching  a  new 
Center  tor  the  Study  of  the 
American  Experience  at 


Grimm  and  Parker  Architects  developed  this 
plan  tor  Goldstein  hiall. 


Washington  College.  The 
College  also  is  raising  funds 
to  develop  two  additional 
centers  of  academic  excel- 
lence; a  Center  for  Environ- 
ment and  Society  and  a  Cen- 
ter for  Writing  and  the  Cre- 
ative Process.  To  date,  more 
than  $1.2  million  has  been 
committed  to  the  Center  for 
Environment  and  Society, 
including  four  recent  gifts — a 
significant  lead  trust  by  Visi- 
tors and  Governors  Chair  L. 
Clifford  Schroeder  and  his 
wife,  Lois;  $300,000  from  the 
Thomas  H.  and  Barbara  W. 
Gale  Foundation;  $200,000 
from  the  Jessie  Ball  duPont 
Fund;  and  more  than 
$400,000  from  Ted  and  Jen- 
nifer Stanley.  To  support 
these  and  other  academic 
initiatives,  the  Christian  A. 
Johnson  Endeavor  Founda- 
tion of  New  York  in  January 
granted  $300,000. 

Providing  a  dramatic 
boost  to  the  endowment — 
now  past  the  $100  million 
mark — the  College  has  re- 
ceived grants  totaling  nearly 
$6  million  from  The  Hodson 
Trust.  Other  major  gifts  in- 
clude $4  million  from  the  es- 
tate of  the  late  Lt.  Colonel 
W.  Kennon  Perrin  '3 1  and 
$1.6  million  from  the  estate 
of  Mary  Ivolue  Jammer 
White.  Leadership  gifts  of 
$100,000  or  more  are  listed 
on  the  inside  front  cover.  ► 


College  to  Honor  Goldstein 
With  $4  Million  Building 


Washington  College 
will  name  a  new  $4 
million  academic 
building  after  Louis  L. 
Goldstein,  the  legendary 
Maryland  comptroller  who 
died  last  year  after  40  years 
in  office. 

When  Goldstein  Hall 
opens  in  August  2000,  it  will 
be  the  only  landmark  on  the 
Eastern  Shore  named  tor 
Louis  Goldstein,  Maryland's 
most  popular  politician  of  all 
time. 

Goldstein  was  chairman 
ot  the  College's  Board  of 
Visitors  and  Governors  for 
18  years  until  his  death,  and 
served  as  an  aggressive  advo- 
cate for  the  College  in  state 
and  national  circles.  He 
graduated  from  Washington 
College  in  1935,  and  joined 
the  board  in  1957. 

Goldstein  Hall  will  re- 
place the  aging  Ferguson 
Hall,  which  was  constructed 
in  the  1940s  to  house  return- 
ing GIs,  and  which  was  razed 
earlier  this  month  to  make 
way  for  the  new  facility. 
With  its  22,000  square  feet 
of  space,  Goldstein  Hall  will 
house  classrooms,  faculty  of- 
fices, laboratories,  a  75-seat 
lecture  hall,  an  academic  re- 


sources center,  and  seminar 
facilities. 

"Louis  Goldstein  loved 
the  education  and  the  oppor- 
tunities Washington  College 
offered  young  people,  and  he 
worked  hard  to  see  that  the 
College's  facilities  matched 
its  potential,"  President  John 
S.  Toll  said.  "Louis  would  be 
proud  to  have  a  building  so 
bustling  with  learning  and 
energy  bear  his  name." 

The  drive  to  raise  the 
funds  needed  for  the 
Goldstein  project  received 
an  initial  boost  when  the 
Alden  Trust  ot  Worcester, 
MA,  pledged  $100,000  to 
the  effort.  The  donation  is  a 
matching  grant  that  will  be 
delivered  once  Washington 
College  raises  the  next 
$300,000  for  the  building. 
College  officials  are  ap- 
proaching corporate  and 
foundation  leaders  across  the 
state  and  asking  them  to 
contribute  to  this  academic 
memorial  to  Louis  Goldstein. 

Along  with  providing 
modern  and  integrated  space 
for  classrooms  and  faculty, 
Goldstein  Hall  will  become 
the  centerpiece  ot  an  effort 
to  create  an  attractive  south 
entrance  to  the  campus.  ► 


WASHINGTON-COLLEGE-MAOAZINE      /      SUMMER.   1999 


11 


ALUMNI 


SNAPSHOTS 


Actor  or  Average  Guy? 
Seeing  Double  Dukes 

JOHN  WAYNE  WANTS  TO  KNOW  WHY  HE'S 
not  on  the  cover  of  this  magazine. 

After  all,  how  often  does  a  small  school  like 
Washington  College  boast  an  akimnus  who 
captured  the  nation's  imagination,  who  rose 
to  become  the  toughest  of  the  silver  screen's 
tough  guys,  the  Duke,  the  swaggering  icon  of 
all  that  is  true  grit  and  America? 


Actually,  that  John 
Wayne  didn't  go  to  Washing- 
ton College.  The  John 
Wayne  who  sells  home  secu- 
rity systems  in  Chestertown 
did. 

You'll  have  to  forgive  that 
Jiihn  Wayne's  momentary 
contusion  and  his  demand 
for  a  cover  shot. 
Who  can 
hlame  him 
after  already 
being  fea- 
tured on  "En- 
tertainment 
Tonight,"  "In- 
side Edition," 
and  the  "Today" 
show? 

The  publicity 
blitz  was  master- 
minded by  Ameri- 
can Movie  Clas- 
sics, a  cable  station 
that  features  old 
movies.  To  promote 
an  upcoming  series 
on  Hollywood  leading 
men,  the  film  company 
scoured  phone  books 
across  the  country  to 
track  down  regular  folks 
who  shared  names  with 
celluloid  stars. 

Thus  John  Wayne, 
Class  of  1973,  became 


John  Wayne,  the  actor 
named  Marion  Michael 
Morrison  who  later  changed 
his  name  for  the  1930  film 
"The  Big  Trail." 

"1  actually  have  a  better 
name,"  Wayne  told  The 
Star  Demo- 


crat in  a  front  page  story  re- 
capping his  return  to  civilian 
life  after  his  New  York  media 
tour,  which  left  him  ex- 
hausted and  sour  on  the  ce- 
lebrity life. 

"It's  like  having  a  five-star 
meal  at  a  drive-through  win- 
dow.  It  gets  readily  apparent 
why  people  in  that  position 
get  sick  of  it — cameras  in 
your  face  every  20  minutes." 

Wayne,  48,  insists  his  par- 
ents named  him  without 
even  knowing  of  the  movie 
star,  that  John  is  just  a  family 
name.  It  wasn't  until  he  was 
10  that  Wayne  realized  why 
people  kept  calling  bim 
"Duke." 

Since  then,  being  John 
Wayne  has  brought  him 
quite  a  few  laughs,  more  re- 
turned sales  calls  than  a  Billy 
Kanzler  or  a  Jay  Budner 
might  land,  and  some  great 
anecdotes. 

One  time  the  Barbados 


press  corps  staked  out  the  air- 
port where  the  Waynes  were 
set  to  arrive  for  a  Christmas 
vacation.  A  12-year-old  John 
emerged  from  the  plane  to  an 
explosion  of  flash  bulbs  that 
gave  way  to  a  grumbling  and 
disappcnnted  pack  of  report- 
ers. 

At  Washmgton  College, 
Wayne  roomed  with  Paul 
Newman's  son,  Scott.  One 
time  a  young  Pat  Trams  (now 
Alumni  Director  Trams 
HoUingsworth  '75)  was  run- 
ning through  East  Hall  into 
the  dark  chapter  room.  A  few 
folks  were  there,  and  Trams 
asked,  "Has  anyone  seen  John 
Wayne?" 

One  man  pulled  down  the 
newspaper  he  was  reading, 
flashed  a  pair  of  striking  blue 
eyes  and  smiled. 

"Not  lately,"  Paul  Newman 
answered.  I 


What's  in  a  name?  These  two  John  Waynes- 
the  actor  at  left  and  the  Chestertown 
businessman  at  right— share  a  striking 
resemblance  In  cowboy  duds. 


12 


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Faculty/Staff 
Achievements 


THOMAS  COUSINEAU, 
professor  of  English,  served 
as  visiting  professor  of 
American  literature  at  the 
University  of  Paris  during 
the  spring  semester.  His  new 
book,  After  the  Filial  No: 
Samuel  Beckett's  Trilogy 
(Newark:   University  ot 
Delaware  Press;  London:  As- 
sociated University  Presses), 
has  recently  been  published. 
(See  article  on  Page  8.) 

LISA  DANIELS,  assistant 
professor  of  economics,  had 
her  review  of  Participatory 
Development:  The  Case  of 
Zimbabwe  by  John  Makumbe 
accepted  by  the  African  Stud- 
ies Quarterly  Journal. 

JAMES  DARASZDI,  associ- 
ate professor  of  business 
management,  had  his  paper 
"Using  the  Audit  Committee 
of  the  Board  to  Assess  Risk" 
accepted  for  publication  in 
The  Forensic  Examiner,  the 
journal  of  the  American 
College  of  Forensic  Examin- 
ers. He  also  has  completed  a 
pre-publication  academic  re- 
view on  a  recently  published 
book  titled  Cash  Flow  Retuni 
on  Investment,  a  Total  System 
Approach  to  Valuing  a  Firm. 

RICHARD  DEPROSPO,  pro- 
fessor of  English,  had  his  pa- 
per "An  Anomaly  on  the 
Face  of  the  Earth"  accepted 
by  Richard  Kopley  for  the 
Poe  Session  at  the  Modem 
Language  Association.  He 


was  employed  again  by 
the  U.S.  State  Department 
to  travel  to  Slovenia  in 
June  to  advise  Marihor  Uni- 
versity on  the  establishment 
of  an  American  studies  pro- 
gram. 

ROBERT  FALLAW,  the 
Everett  E.  Nuttle  Professor  of 
History,  m  April  gave  a  pa- 
per on  "Recent  Interpreta- 
tions of  the  American  Civil 
War"  at  the  regional  meeting 
ot  the  Delaware  State  Library 
Association  in  Georgetown, 
DE. 


RICHARD  GILLIN  has  been 
named  Washington  College's 
new  Ernest  A.  Howard  Pro- 
fessor of  English  Literature. 
Gillin  assumed  that  mantle 
following  the  retirement  of 
Nancy  Tatum. 

DOUGLAS  HANKS  111,  me- 
dia relations  associate,  had  a 
satirical  essay  published  by 
The  Washington  Post  "Out- 
look" section  on  Sunday, 
May  9.  The  article,  titled 
"Here's  the  Soft  Landing 
You're  Looking  For,"  urged 
President  Clinton  to  retire  to 
the  Eastern  Shore  of  Mary- 
land. 

CLAIRE  KATZ,  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  philosophy,  was  a  re- 
spondent in  the  Spring  Sym- 
posium at  Salisbury  State 
University  in  April.  The 
symposium  focused  on  the 
ethics  of  cloning. 

She  was  also  selected  to 
participate  in  the  National 
Humanities  Council  summer 
seminar  on  Foucault  in  June, 
and  was  invited  to  present  a 


paper  at  a  conference  on  Le- 
vinas  and  the  Judiac  at 
Emory  University  this  Octo- 
ber. 

Katz  also  had  a  paper  ac- 
cepted at  the  Merleau-Ponty 
circle  this  summer  in  Wales, 
and  has  a  book  review  being 
published  in  the  Journal  of 
Speculative  Philosophy. 

JACQUELINE  JONES,  assis- 
tant professor  of  English  and 
American  studies,  has  been 
invited  to  submit  an  essay  on 
James  Baldwin  for  a  volume 
of  the  Dictionary  of  Literary 
Biography  on  American  Novel- 
ists since  World  War  U.  It  will 
be  published  by  Northern  Il- 
linois University. 

VALERIE  LOICHOT,  assis- 
tant professor  of  French,  re- 
cently had  an  article  titled 
"Renaming  the  Name: 
Glissant  and  Walcott's  Re- 
construction of  the  Carib- 
bean Self  accepted  for  pub- 
lication in  The  journal  of 
Caribbean  Literatures  in  a  spe- 
cial issue  titled  "The  Carib- 


Mark  Hubley  (center),  assistant  professor  of  biology,  made  two  presentations  of  tils  research  with  students  at  the 
Experimental  Biology  Conference  In  Washington:  "Effects  of  Temperature  Acclimation  on  Myosin  ATPase  in 
Goldfish  Skeletal  Muscle,"  and  "Effects  of  Temperature  on  Locomotor  Capacity  in  a  Euythermal  Polychaete." 


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bean  That  Is,"  to  he  piih- 
Ushed  in  November. 

In  April  she  presented  a 
paper  titled  "Eating  and  Cre- 
ating: Food  Strategies  for 
Cultural  Reconstruction  in 
Creole  Folktales"  at  "Oral 
Fixation:  Cannibalizing 
Theories/Consuming  Cul- 
tures," an  annual  conference 
at  the  George  Washington 
University  Program  in  Hu- 
man Sciences  in  Washing- 
ton. 

Also,  her  essay  "Negations 
and  Subversions  ot  Paternal 
Authorities  in  Glissant's  Fic- 
tional Works"  was  accepted 
for  publication  as  a  book 
chapter  in  Naming  the  Father: 
Legacies,  Genealogiei  and 
Explorations  of  Fatherhood  in 
Modem  and  Contemporary 
Literatures. 

ROBERT  MOONEY,  assistant 
professor  of  English,  partici- 
pated in  a  panel  discussion 
on  fiction  writing  and  the 
"Demystitication  tif  Writers" 
at  Glouster  Community  Col- 
lege in  New  Jersey  in  April. 
He  also  served  as  a  judge  in 
the  adult  category  for  the  re- 
cent poetry  contest  spon- 
sored by  the  Cecil,  Kent  and 
Queen  Anne's  county  arts 
councils. 

DONALD  MUNSON,  the  Jo- 
seph H.  McLain  Professor  of 
Environmental  Studies,  de- 
livered a  paper  in  April  titled 
"Potentially  Pathogenic 
Amoebae  in  Ballast  Sedi- 
ment" at  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Atlantic  Estuarine  Re- 
search Society  at  the  Vir- 
ginia Institute  of  Marine  Sci- 
ence. 

Munson  also  recently  was 
awarded  a  grant  from  the 
Bermuda  Biological  Station 
for  Research,  Inc.  The 
Grant-In-Aid  will  pay  some 
expenses  for  Munson's  con- 
tinuing summer  research  in 
Bermuda  studying  the  inci- 
dence of  potentially  patho- 
genic amoebae  found  in  in- 


Lauren  Littlefield  (right),  assistant  professor  of  psychology,  has  co-authored  an  article  titled  "Neuropsychological 
Assessment  and  Functional  Capacity"  for  the  journal  NeuroRehabililation.  She  also  is  the  first  author  of  a 
research  project  titled  "Lost  In  Time  But  Not  In  Space:  The  Baserate  of  Disorientation  in  the  Normal  Population," 
which  was  a  poster  presentation  at  the  National  Academy  of  Neuropsychology  Conference  and  a  published 
abstract  in  the  Archives  ol  Clinical  Neuropsychology.  Littlefield  presented  two  posters  (with  eight  students  as  co- 
authors) at  the  April  meeting  ot  the  Eastern  Psychological  Association  in  Providence.  Rl.  The  posters  were  titled 
"Sex  Differences  in  Intimacy  Expectations  and  Mood."  and  "Are  Transsexuals  Depressed?:  The  Typical  Psychiatric 
Profile." 


shore  waters  and  sediments. 
The  pathogens  are  caused  by 
the  presence  of  sewage  dis- 
charge. This  is  the  fourth 
time  the  organization  has 
helped  fund  Munson's  Ber- 
muda research. 

DAVID  NEWELL,  professor 
of  philosophy,  has  been  se- 
lected by  the  Shore  Leader- 
ship Committee  as  facilitator 
for  Shore  Leadership  '99. 

KAREN  SMITH,  professor  of 
physical  education,  coordi- 
nated a  JOURNAL  feature 
on  "The  Spiritual  Founda- 
tions of  Dance"  for  the  In- 
ternational Council  tor 
Health,  Physical  Education, 
Recreation,  Sport  and 
Dance.  Smith  is  director  of 
the  Dance  and  Dance  Edu- 
cation Commission  for  the 
Council. 


She  also  wrote  an  article 
"From  the  Village  to  the 
Stage:  Shaping  Traditional 
Dance  for  the  Concert 
Venue"  for  the  May  1 998 
issue  of  Habibi,  a  journal  ot 
Middle  Eastern  Dance. 
Smith  also  presented  a  work- 
shop on  "Proprioceptive 
Neuromuscular  Facilitation: 
Practical  Applications"  at 
the  National  Convention  of 
the  American  Alliance  for 
Health,  Physical  Education, 
Recreation  and  Dance,  held 
in  Boston. 

JOHN  TAYLOR,  professor  of 
political  science,  traveled  to 
Grenoble,  France,  during 
spring  break  and  participated 
in  a  faculty  exchange  with 
rUniversite  Pierre  Mendes- 
France,  teaching  five  classes 
on  various  topics  in  Ameri- 
can politics  and  law. 


GERRY  FISHER,  director  of 
the  Writing  Program  and 
GAIL  TUBES,  tutorial  in- 
structor in  writing,  had  their 
article  "Teaching  Grammar 
Through  Literature"  pub- 
lished in  CEA  Magazine,  a 
publication  of  the  Journal  of 
the  College  English  Associa- 
tion. Both  are  lecturers  in 
education  at  Washington 
College. 

SUISHENG  ZHAO,  associate 
professor  of  political  science 
and  international  studies,  has 
won  a  National  Fellowship  at 
the  Hoover  Institution  at 
Stanford  University.  The 
prestigious  year-long  fellow- 
ship will  be  devoted  to 
Zhao's  research  project,  "In 
Search  of  Grandeur:  The 
Construction  of  Nationalism 
in  Post-Mao  China."  It  be- 
gins in  the  fall,  t 


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WASHING!  ON-COLLEGE-MAO  A  ZINE 


PORTFOLIO 


CULTURE 


Night 

Photogi-aphs  Ji>'  Gihsun  B.  Aiu/umy 


THE  COLLEGE'S  INTERNATIONAL  COMMUNITY 
came  together  tor  an  evening  ot  music,  dance,  food,  

and  fashion  from  around  the  world.  International  Culture 
Night,  sponsored  hy  the  International  Relations  Club, 
showcases  the  talents  of  an  international  student  population 
that  has  grown  to  135  students.  Despite  cultural  differences, 
students  find  common  ground  and  have  great  fun  by  sharing 
traditions.  Students  from  partner  institutions  as  far-flung  as 
Slovenia  and  Norway,  others  visiting  from  Brazil  and  Japan, 
and  degree-seeking  students  from  Sri  Lanka,  Argentina,  and 
South  Africa  demonstrated  that  music,  dance,  and  smiles  are 
universal  languages.  ► 


Clockwise  from  top:  Sharmila  Nagar  and  Violet  Robinson  model  African  garb;  Osamu  TakakI  from 
Japan  performed  "Carnival  of  Venice"  on  trumpet:  Charu  Gullani,  Sadia  Hameed,  Sumlta  Saba,  and 
Supreet  Sidbu  demonstrate  a  modern  Indian  dance:  Tomaz  Onic  played  a  polka  and  waltz  medley 
from  bis  native  Slovenia  on  accordion;  visiting  students  Caren  Ducom  (France)  and  Dewl  Weber 
(Germany)  sbare  a  moment  after  tbe  sbow;  Yuri  Okada.  a  visiting  student  from  Ferris  University, 
welcomed  spring  witb  a  Japanese  song. 


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PIECES      OF      THE      PAST 


THE  GREAT  FIRE 

0/1916 


TWICE   IN   THE   HISTORY  OF  WASHINGTON   COLLEGE 

fire  has  disrupted  campus  life.  The  burning  of  the  original  College  building  in  1827 

delivered  a  near-death  blow  to  the  budding  institution. 

On  a  wintry  night  nearly  90  years  later,  disaster  struck  again. 

It  couldn't  have  come  at  a  worse  time. 


A 


light  snow  was  tailing  upon  the  already 
whitened  ground  in  the  early  morning 
hours  of  Sunday,  January  16,  1916, 
when  James  Lecates — the  watchman  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  yard — spied 
an  orange  glow  m  the  direction  ot 
Washington  College.  Sensing  calamity, 
Lecates  sounded  an  engine  whistle  that  tore  the  silence  over 
sleeping  Chestertown. 

About  the  same  time,  William  J.  Wallace,  president  of  the 
College  sophomore  class,  was  awake  in  his  Middle  Hall  room 
helping  a  sick  roommate  when,  looking  out  a  window,  he  saw 
flames  leaping  from  the  rear  side  of  the  northern  wing  of  Will- 
iam Smith  Hall. 


Wallace's  shouts  woke  everyone  in  Middle  Hall  and  other 
students  quickly  roused  classmates  and  professors  living  in  East 
and  West  halls.  Within  half  an  hour  a  crowd  of  students  and 
townspeople — alerted  by  the  locomotive  whistle  and  the  subse- 
quent ringing  ot  church  bells — had  gathered  around  Smith 
Hall.  Flames,  which  apparently  had  originated  in  the  janitor's 
basement  utility  room,  spread  throughout  the  structure  so 
quickly  that  by  the  time  the  volunteer  fire  company  reached 
campus,  Smith  Hall  was  nearly  fully  enveloped. 

Some  students  tried  connecting  the  fire  hoses  in  Middle, 
East  and  West  halls  in  order  to  direct  water  onto  the  blaze,  but 
they  were  unable  to  coax  anything  from  the  pipes.  Dragging  the 
hose  to  the  town  water  plugs  at  the  foot  of  the  campus,  students 
were  dismayed  to  discover  that  the  fittings  were  not  compatible. 


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The  roofless  shell  of  Wlliram  Snrltti 
Hall  was  a  popular  postcard  Image. 


Meanwhile,  College  Pres.  James  W.  Cain  and  a  few  stu- 
dents attempted  to  enter  the  huildmg  hy  the  front  steps.  The 
heat  foiled  that  attempt.  At  the  rear  of  the  building,  Dr.  J.S.W. 
Jones  and  student  Donald  Tydings  succeeded  in  rescuing  the 
large  oil  painting  of  William  Smith,  founder  of  the  College  for 
whom  the  building  was  named,  from  a  rear  wall  of  the  audito- 
rium stage.  In  addition  to  the  valuable  painting,  four  ma- 
hogany chairs  located  on  the  auditorium  stage  and  a  chapel 
Bible  were  pulled  from  the  fire. 

Heavy  winds  from  the  south  steered  the  flames  in  the  di- 
rection of  the  new  $50,000  gymnasium.  Local  firemen,  sensing 
that  Smith  Hall  could  not  be  saved,  turned  a  water  hose  onto 
the  gym  and,  aided  by  the  continuing  snowfall,  kept  a  second 
structure  from  catching  fire. 

As  daybreak  revealed,  all  that  remained  ot  William  Smith 
Hall — only  nine  years  old  and  the  architectural  and  academic 
centerpiece  of  the  campus — was  a  smoldering  shell  of  brick  and 
granite.  The  entire  roof  was  missing.  Spectators  could  stand  at 
the  rear  of  the  structure  and  see  clear  to  the  other  side  through 
frameless  windows. 

To  a  writer  for  The  Enterpuse,  a  county  newspaper.  Smith 
Hall  resembled  "one  of  the  ruined  piles  ot  French  and  Belgian 
masonry  that  stand  in  the  path  of  the  German  army  in  their 
march  through  those  war-devastated  countries." 

The  financial  loss  of  William  Smith  Hall  was  put  at 
$71,000  ($53,000  would  be  recovered  by  insurance).  Except  for 
the  few  items  saved,  everything  inside  was  destroyed.  Class- 
room desks  and  chairs,  dozens  of  settees,  shelves,  cabinets, 
tables,  roll-top  desks  and  reading  tables — most  of  them  oak  or 
maple — were  reduced  to  ashes. 


The  blaze  was  so  intense  that  eight  class  shields — metal 
plaques  listing  names  of  past  graduating  class  members — had 
been  twisted  into  almost  unrecognizable  lumps.  (Within  days 
after  the  fire,  Cain,  with  all  the  other  demands  now  upon  him, 
sent  personal  notes  to  alumni  asking  it  they  would  pay  to  re- 
place the  shields.) 

Because  Smith  Hall  was  the  heart  and  brains  ot  the  cam- 
pus, it  housed  under  one  roof  all  the  accouterments  that  make 
a  college.  And  all  were  lost:  a  dozen  microscopes  and  other  ap- 
paratus essential  to  biological  and  chemical  inquiry  m  the 
laboratories;  display  cabinets  and  500  books  in  the  bookstore; 
125  hymnals  and  an  upright  piano  in  the  auditorium;  a  min- 
eral display  case  and  a  bust  ot  George  Washington  in  the  corri- 
dor; 100  tons  of  coal  and  a  heating  pump  in  the  basement; 
school  stationery,  filing  cabinets,  clocks,  rugs  and  a  dozen 
framed  pictures  in  the  administrative  offices;  3,500  volumes  of 
books  in  the  library. 

Those  items  could  be  replaced.  What  could  not  were 
records  and  artifacts  unique  to  Washington  College.  Despite  the 
burning  of  the  original  College  building  and  all  its  contents  in 
1827,  school  officials  and  friends  had  managed  to  accumulate 
some  important  documents  pertaining  to  the  institution's 
founding.  An  old  ledger,  discovered  in  a  waterfront  warehouse 
in  town  and  presented  to  the  College,  contained  a  list  of  the 
original  subscribers  and  the  amount  they  pledged  to  establishing 
the  school.  Cain  himself  had  original  issues  of  the  1789  Philadel- 
phia Gazette  and  Saturday  Evening  Post  that  contained  accounts 
of  the  presentation  by  the  school  of  an  honorary  degree  to 
George  Washington.  Since  1889,  the  school  had  maintained 
records  of  students  and  alumni.  All  went  up  in  flames. 


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EXCERPT 

Was  the  1916  Fire  Arson? 

hat  caused  the  fire  that  destroyed  William  Smith  Hall  and 
nearly  its  entire  contents  in  1916? 

Initial  appraisals  suggested  spontaneous  combustion  in  a  pile  of  coal 
stored  near  the  basement  furnace.  A  small  fire  had  been  discovered 
and  extinguished  recently  in  the  same  area.  But  subsequent  events  on 
campus  and  around  town  that  year  turned  suspicions  toward  pyroma- 
nia. 

After  nightfall  on  March  2 1 ,  fire  was  discovered  in  the  new  gymna- 
sium basement.  The  Chestertown  Fire  Company  arrived  and  extin- 
guished the  blaie,  which  had  begun  in  a  closet.  The  basement  was 
heavily  damaged. 


There  were  personal  losses,  too.  For  the  past  25  years,  Cain 
had  been  collecting  notes  tor  a  financial  history  ot  the  United 
States  he  intended  to  write.  His  labors  went  up  in  smoke. 

Before  the  ashes  of  Smith  Hall  had  cooled,  Cain  and  the 
trustees,  who  had  discussed  routine  College  business  in  Cain's 
office  until  ten  o'clock  the  night  of  the  fire,  held  an  emergency 
meeting  in  the  gymnasium.  The  group  quickly  agreed  to  re- 
build Smith  Hall  as  soon  as  possible.  In  the  meantime,  the  gym 
would  be  outfitted  as  temporary  administration  headquarters 
and  classes  would  be  held,  if  necessary,  in  the  old  wooden  gym. 
The  board  also  agreed  to  suspend  classes  and  to  send  students 
home.  The  fire  destroyed  the  heating  plant  and  the  Hill  dorms 


Ten  days  later,  a  third  fire  raised  alarms  on  campus.  Two  stu- 
dents residing  in  Middle  Hall  smelled  smoke  and  discovered  a 
small  blaze  in  a  pile  of  blankets  that  had  been  placed  upon  a  mat- 
tress in  a  storeroom.  The  fire  was  put  out  and  College  officials 
immediately  hired  a  night  watchman  at  $1.50  a  day. 

In  his  April  6  report  to  the  Board  of  Visitors  and  Governors, 
President  Cain  wrote:  "Evidence  was  found  in  connection  with 
the  fire  in  Middle  Hall  that  shows  beyond  doubt  that  it  was  the 
work  of  an  incendiary.  1  am  now  convinced  that  the  fire  in  the 
Gymnasium  originated  in  the  same  manner,  and  probably  the  fire 
in  William  Smith  Hall  also." 

Local  authorities  arrested  a  man  in  August  who  was  suspected 
of  setting  fires  at  seven  locations  about  the  county.  Although  he 
was  found  guilty  of  arson  and  sent  to  jail,  none  of  the  convic- 
tions was  related  to  the  mysterious  College  fires.  I 


were  too  cold  tor  comtort.  Students  were  to  return  in  two 
weeks  when  a  new  system  was  expected  to  be  in  operation. 
Looking  ahead  to  June,  Cain  concluded  that  commencement 
would  have  to  be  held  in  the  gym. 

(By  the  time  the  students  returned  to  campus,  the  new 
gym  housed  an  office  and  three  recitation  rooms.  The  old  gym 
was  refitted  for  two  more  recitation  rooms,  a  laboratory  was  set 
up  in  the  basement  of  East  Hall  and  a  reading  room  was  pre- 
pared in  Normal  Hall.) 


i^^^^Mf- 


Four  camera  angles  show  the  extent  ot  the  damage  to  William  Smith 
Hall  during  the  tire  ot  January  16, 1916. 


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Desiring  the  advice  and  help  of  the 
College  community  at  large,  notices  were 
sent  to  alumni  over  the  signature  of 
James  A.  Pearce,  the  Board  chairman, 
asking  them  to  attend  an  emergency 
meeting  in  Baltimore's  Rennert  Ho- 
tel on  January  28.  "This  is  the 
greatest  crisis  in  the  affairs  of  the 
college  during  the  memory  ot  any 
man  now  living,"  the  elderly 
Pearce  wrote. 

Even  before  the  fire,  Pearce, 
son  of  the  late  Senator  Pearce  and 
a  student  in  the  College  prepara- 
tory department  in  1853,  had  spo- 
ken of  resigning  from  the  Board. 
He  had  been  appointed  to  the  va- 
cancy created  by  his  father's  death  \ 
in  1863  and  had  been  active  in  Col- 
lege matters  ever  since.  He  agreed  to                     '^ 
stay  on  during  the  rebuilding  period,  but 
on  occasion  the  stress  of  not  knowing  if  the 
Maryland  legislature  would  continue  to  aid  the  ^~ 
College  wore  down  his  stamina.  "We  must  recog- 
nize and  the  State  must  recognize  that  we  are  essen- 
tially a  State  College — dependent  upon  the  State  tor 
actual  existence,"  Pearce  wrote  in  July  to  fellow  trustee  Harry 
J.  Hopkins  of  Annapolis.  "Personally,  at  my  age,  I  cannot  con- 
tinue to  bear  the  strain  and  responsibility  of  constant  harassing 
debt,"  he  added. 

Hopkins,  who  was  president  ot  Farmers  Nationa 
Bank,  tried  to  reassure  Pearce.  He  wrote:  "1  re- 
alize that  our  College  is  in  a  very  crucial 
period  of  its  existence.  We  have  had 
many  set-backs,  but  when  you  stop 
and  consider  for  a  moment  the 
Institution  as  it  is  today,  and 
what  it  was  a  few  years  ago, 
there  is  awakened  in  my 
heart  and  mind  the  utmost 
gratitude  and  delight  at  the 
progress  that  has  been 
made." 

College  officials,  no 
doubt,  at  first  were  reminded 
of  the  winter  fire  90  years  ear-  "'' 

lier  that  destroyed  the  first 
school  building.  Raising  funds  tor 
a  new  structure  proved  so  difficult  a 
task  that  the  College  was  without  a  per- 
manent home  for  1 7  years. 

Pearce's  worries  about  College  finances  were  not 
entirely  groundless.  Newspaper  articles  in  The  (Baltimore)  Sim 
in  early  1916  questioned  the  wisdom  of  the  legislature  giving 
money  to  Washington  College,  St.  John's  College  and  other 
private  schools  around  the  state.  The  paper  noted  that  ot  the 
126  students  enrolled  in  Washington  College,  51  were  resi- 
dents of  Kent  County  with  many  others  from  nearby  Eastern 
Shore  counties.  "It  is  reasonable  to  ask  whether  it  is  sound 
public  policy  for  a  large  sum  of  the  money  of  the  whole  people 
to  be  devoted  to  the  maintenance  of  a  college  which  serves 


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The  charred  pages  of  the  Bible  (above)  used  in  the  last 
meeting  in  the  old  West  tiall  chapel  betore  it  was 
moved  to  the  new  William  Smith  Hall  in  1907.  College 
Pros.  James  W.  Cain  rescued  the  book  trom  the  1916 
tire.  (Below)  Not  much  was  saved  from  the  William 
Smith  ttall  fire,  but  mementos — Including  a  pair  of 
light  bulbs— have  been  preserved  by  the  College. 


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principally  the  people  of  one  small  county  and  its  immediate 
environs,"  wrote  The  Sun. 

Variations  ot  that  argument  and  its  periodic  success  at 
swaying  legislative  appropriations  had  plagued  Washington 
College  for  more  than  a  century.  But  in  1916  state  lawmakers 
approved  expenditures  to  the  College  totaling  $28,275  for 
maintenance  and  $10,000  for  helping  rebuild  Smith  Hall  for 
each  of  the  next  two  years. 

EXCERPT 


With  the  water  Cain  was  so  busy 

tower,  the  gym  and  dealing  with  contrac- 
the  shell  ol  Will-  tors,  insurance  agents 
lam  Smith  Hall  in  and  salvage  collectors 
the  background,  and  preparing  for 

workers  with  commencement  that 

teams  ot  horses  he  arranged  to  have  a 

begin  the  excava-       substitute  teacher 
tion  for  a  new  and       take  over  his  teach- 
separate  heating         ing  responsibilities.  If 
plant.  keeping  the  school 

running  under  those 
conditions  was  not 
burden  enough,  Cain 
was  faced  with  an- 
other fire  of  sorts; 
criticism  by  some  stu- 
dents ot  how  the 
Chestertown  volun- 
teer firemen  handled  the  January  16  blaze  was  threatening  to 
sour  town-gown  relations. 

In  an  account  ot  the  burning  of  Smith  Hall  carried  in  the 
February  fssue  ot  the  student  publicatiim  The  Collegian, 
firefighters  were  blamed  in  part  for  not  getting  the  situation 
under  control. 

"About  an  hour  after  the  alarm  had  been  given,  some  fire- 
men arrived  pulling  a  hose  truck,"  the  article  reported.  "One 


William  Wallace,  Witness  to  History 

or  William  J.  Wallace,  the  student  credited  witti  first  spotting  the 
William  Smith  Hall  fire  from  his  dorm  room,  the  conflagration  he 
viewed  that  cold  January  1916  night  would  not  be  his  last. 

Wallace,  a  Church  Hill  native,  joined  the  U.S.  Marine  Corps  shortly 
after  he  graduated  from  Washington  College  in  June  1918.  He  was  com- 
missioned second  lieutenant  the  next  month  and  received  his  flight 
training  at  Pensacola,  FL,  in  1921.  He  served  with  the  Second  Marine 
Brigade  in  Santo  Domingo  until  his  return  to  the  States  in  1924.  In  the 
late  1 920s  he  was  a  squadron  commander  in  China.  When  the  Japanese 
attacked  Pearl  Harbor  on  December  7,  1941,  Wallace  was  among  those 
defending  Ewa  Airfield  on  Oahu.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  colo- 
nel and  was  commanding  officer  of  air  groups  at  the  Battle  of  Midway 
and  on  Guadalcanal,  where  he  was  wounded.  Finally,  as  a  lieutenant 
general,  Wallace  was  commanding  general  of  Aircraft,  Fleet  Marine 
Force,  in  Santa  Ana,  California.  He  retired  in  1952  and  died  in  1977. 

Wallace  was  one  of  the  most  decorated  military  veterans  in  College 
history.  He  was  awarded  a  Distinguished  Service  Medal,  a  Legion  of 
Merit,  a  Bronze  Star,  a  Purple  Heart,  a  Presidential  Unit  Citation  with 
Star,  an  Expeditionary  Medal  with  Bronze  Star,  an  American  Defense 
Service  Medal,  an  American  Campaign  Medal,  and  a  World  War  II  Vic- 
tory  Medal. 

In  June  1948,  Wallace  (shown  at  right  with  College  President  Gilbert  W.  Mead)  returned  to  his 
mencement  address  and  was  given  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  I 


alma  mater  where  he  delivered  the  com- 


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truck  had  been  left  at  the  lower  end  of  the  campus  by 
some  who  were  apparently  more  anxious  to  witness 
the  glorious  sight  than  to  aid  in  extinguishing  the 
fire.  There  was  absolutely  no  system  in  the  work  of 
the  volunteer  firemen  of  Chestertown;  every  one  was 
a  boss,  some  did  not  know  what  to  do  themselves, 
and  were  nervously  suggesting  what  should  he  done 
by  others.  Some  of  the  students  got  the  hose  truck 
which  had  been  left  by  some  over-enthusiast  at  the 
foot  of  campus,  and  brought  it  where  it  could  be  of 
some  use." 

The  article  continued:  "To  cap  the  chmax  of  this 
regrettable  inefficiency  on  the  part  of  the  Chester- 
town  firemen,  after  the  hose  had  been  adjusted  to 
the  water  plug,  it  was  discovered  that  the  plug 
wrench  had  been  left  behind  or  mislaid.  Finally,  after 
a  series  of  circular  movements,  a  wrench  was  sup- 
plied from  an  automobile,  which  was  standing 
nearby." 

Determined  not  to  infringe  upon  The  Collegians 
editorial  prerogatives,  Cain  wrote  the  publication  a 
letter  designed  to  soothe  both  sides.  "If  the  town  ap- 
paratus seemed  slow  in  arriving,  it  should  be  borne  in 
mind  that  the  hour  was  most  unfavorable  for  the 
quick  assembling  ot  men,  and  that  perhaps  our  anxi- 
ety made  the  time  seem  longer  than  it  actually  was," 
he  wrote.  "If  there  appeared  to  be  a  lack  of  a  directive 
hand,  may  this  not  have  been  due  to  a  belief  that,  the 
College  being  a  community  in  itself,  some  one  in  au- 
thority in  the  College,  myself  perhaps,  should  direct 
the  work." 

The  next  issue  of  The  Collegian  carried  an  edito- 
rial note  commending  the  fire  department. 

Bad  luck  seemed  to  follow  Dr.  Cain  that  year, 
even  when  he  traveled  in  October  to  Baltimore  to 
attend  the  Washington-Gallaudet  football  game, 
which  Washington  lost.  Cain  was  struck  by  a  car 
owned  by  the  Monumental  Brewing  Company. 
Slightly  shaken  and  bruised,  he  was  helped  across 
the  street  to  the  Rennert  Hotel  where  he  dusted 
himself  off. 

By  December  construction  of  the  new  William 
Smith  Hall  had  reached  the  first  floor  and  Cain,  anx- 
ious that  work  was  not  moving  as  quickly  as  he  had 
hoped,  urged  the  contractor  to  employ  more  men. 

The  rebuilding  of  a  nearly  identical  Smith  Hall 
included  two  features  not  in  the  original  structure. 
One  walk-in  safe  was  installed  on  the  first  floor  and 
another  in  the  basement.  And  on  the  roof  a  cupola 
was  built.  While  work  progressed  on  Smith  Hall  un- 
der a  contract  with  Henry  S.  Ripple,  a  new  heating 
plant  was  erected  and  outfitted  in  a  new  and  separate 
building  by  contractor  Clarence  E.  Stubbs.  The  final 
cost  of  the  entire  project,  including  a  $3,500  hot  wa- 
ter system  for  the  gym  and  the  dormitories,  was 
$76,000. 

In  early  February  1918,  students  and  the  adminis- 
tration moved  into  the  new  William  Smith  Hall.  On 
the  morning  of  June  19,  the  College  witnessed  its  first 
commencement  in  the  new  structure.  I 


TO         ORDER 

Washington  College  History 

college's  history  comprises  the  stories  of  the  people  whose  lives  were 
touched  by  it — students,  presidents,  professors,  alumni,  and  others  who 
witnessed  important  milestones  and  who  offer  their  unique  perspectives  of  dif- 
ferent periods  in  time. 

Thus  Washington  College:  A  History  of  the  School  on  the  Hill,  the  latest  project 
of  the  Literary  House  Press,  is  not  written  in  a  single  voice,  but  offers  a  compen- 
dium of  historical  narrative  and  personal  anecdotes  to  tell  the  history  of  Washing- 
ton College.  Bill  Thompson  '70,  the  editor  for  this  project,  has  assembled  a  lively 
and  colorful  history  from  sources  such  as  Board  minutes,  letters,  memoirs,  and  cor- 
respondence that  retell  some  familiar  stories  (like  that  of  the  great  fire  of  1916  re- 
counted here)  while  uncovering  some  little-known  gems.  Among  them  are  the  pre- 
viously unpublished  biography  of  President  Cain,  written  by  his  son,  novelist  James 
M.  Cain  '10. 

Thompson  found  a  common  thread  throughout  the  2 1 7-year  history  of 
Washington  College — the  tenacity  of  the  first  college  founded  in  the  new 
nation  with  the  support  of  George  Washington  and  other  colonial  leaders. 
"Although  the  school  had  auspicious  beginnings,  there  were  a  number  of 
occasions  when  the  College  almost  ceased  to  exist  due  to  financial  reasons — 
two  disastrous  fires,  economic  depressions,  and  lack  of  support  from  the  state," 
said  Thompson.  When  Washington  College  was  founded  in  1782,  it  was  lo- 
cated at  the  crossroads  of  colonial  civilization,  Thompson  explains.  As  the  na- 
tion grew,  the  Eastern  Shore  grew  remote,  and  Washington  College  attracted  a 
more  regional  following. 

"Despite  the  hardships  of  the  20th  century,  two  things  ensured  the  survival 
of  Washington  College,"  Thompson  said.   "The  first  came  in  the  1920s,  with 
the  reorganization  of  the  Board  of  Visitors  and  Governors  under  Col.  Hiram 
Brown,  coupled  with  the  first  effort  to  appeal  to  alumni  for  financial  support. 
The  second  came  in  1952,  with  the  opening  of  the  first  Bay  Bridge.  To  a  great 
extent  that  helped  erode  the  isolation  of  the  College." 

Much  of  the  history  of  Washington  College  since  the  opening  of  the  Bay 
Bridge  has  remained  unchronicled,  until  now.  Twenty  years  have  passed  since 
Dutch  Dumschott's  history,  Washington  College,  was  published,  and  his  vol- 
ume stopped  with  the  events  of  1973.  Still,  copies  of  the  out-of-print  book  are 
so  hard  to  come  by  that  lucky  owners  resort  to  hiding  them  in  desk  drawers. 

Now,  with  the  new  history,  alumni  and  friends  with  an  interest  in  Washing- 
ton College  will  have  the  opportunity  to  rediscover  the  personalities  and  people 
who  made  Washington  College  what  it  is  today,  and  to  see  the  College  within 
the  larger  context  of  each  successive  generation,  from  the  birth  of  a  new  nation 
to  the  threshold  of  a  new  millennium.  Throughout  the  volume,  Thompson  has 
endeavored  to  place  the  school  in  the  mainstream  of  history  rather  than  treat 
the  campus  as  an  island. 

Washington  College:  A  History  of  the  School  on  the  Hill  is  scheduled  for 
publication  in  November.  Designed  in  oversized  art  book  format,  the  history 
will  contain  nearly  100  photographs  and  illustrations  in  color  and  200  images 
in  black  and  white.  The  history  will  be  available  through  the  Washington 
College  Bookstore  this  fall.  Pre-publication  price  is  $49.95.  To  order  your 
copy,  call  1-800-422-1782,  ext.  7749.  -MCL  > 


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BEHIND      THE      SCENES 


Another  Opening,  Another 

SHOW 


IT'S   SIX   O'CLOCK   IN   THE   EVENING   AND 
Tawes  Theatre  still  stinks  from  last  night's  dress  rehearsal.  Not  that  the  final 

run-through  of  The  Boys  from  Syracuse  was  particularly  sweaty,  it  just  was 

particularly  bad.   Really  bad.   The  pace  was  glacial,  the  singers  were  oft-key, 

actors  missed  their  lines,  props  wandered  away,  the  timing  was  off, 

the  orchestra  was  either  behind  or  ahead  of  the  cast, 

jokes  fell  fTit,  entrances  were  late.  And  the  actors  knew  it. 

There  were  fights  and  bickering  and  tears.  During  a  post-mortem  with  the  cast, 

director  Jason  Rubin  threw  down  his  pad — partly  for  effect, 

no  doubt,  but  clearly  he  was  frustrated. 

Rehearsal  the  night  before,  he  says,  went  extremely  well. 

Why  is  tonight  so  God-awful  bad? 


That  is  the  speech  the  30-or-so 
actots  remember  as  they  trickle 
into  the  Daniel  Z.  Gibson  Per- 
forming Arts  Center  for  the  musical's 
Thursday  night  opening  in  April.  For 


B     Y 


two  months  they  have  been  rehears- 
ing one  of  the  most  ambitious  projects 
ever  produced  by  the  Washington 
College  music  and  drama  depart- 
ments. The  drama  department  has 


DOUGLAS 


HANKS 


been  enjoying  a  remarkable  surge  in 
popularity  during  recent  years.  Major 
numbers  are  at  record  totals,  classes 
are  full,  and  casting  calls  are  flush.  So 
expectations  are  high  this  Opening 


I     f     I 


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Paul  Davis  listens  to  some  final  words  on 
how  to  rescue  the  show  from  the  previous 
night's  anemic  dress  rehearsal. 


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Night,  at  least  on  campus.  Backstage, 
there  are  questions. 

Can  they  really  pull  this  one  oft? 


There's  always  a  risk  of  something 
going  wrong,  hut  I'm  actually  pretty 
confident  about  this,"  explains  Peter 
Torigoe,  the  technical  director  tor  the 
show.  He's  in  charge  of  the  lights,  props 
and  set,  and  has  seen  quite  a  number  of 
Washington  College  productions  in  his 
time.  Torigoe  actually  graduated  last 
year,  but  the  drama  department  hired 
him  part-time  to  handle  maintenance 
for  Tawes.  Like  most  of  the  actors,  he 
doesn't  betray  any  nervousness,  even 
given  last  night's  stinker. 

"I  think  it's  come  together  really 
well." 

Even  a  one-man  show  needs  a  chance 
to  jell,  but  there  has  been  so  much  to 
come  together  in  Boys.  The  1938 
Rodgers  &  Hart  show,  a  send-up  of 
Shakespeare's  The  Comedy  of  Errors,  is 
one  of  those  Golden  Age  rollicking  mu- 
sicals from  the  1940s,  with  a  huge  cast, 
color-soaked  costumes  and  extravagant 
dance  numbers. 

To  produce  it,  Washington  College 
has  rallied  most  of  the  performmg  arts 
community  on  campus  to  the  cause.  The 
music  department  patched  together 
what  is  really  the  College's  first  pit  or- 
chestra— a  band  of  15  recruits  from  the 
campus  jazz  band,  concert  band  and  or- 


Mlchael  Moore,  who  plays  the 
Merchant  ot  Syracuse,  and  Lydia 
Farnham,  an  assistant  stage  man- 
ager, watch  the  action  on  stage 
from  the  wings. 


chestra.  Those  ensembles  are 
alscT  enjoying  flush  years  of 
membership,  yet  there  are 
still  a  few  unaffiliated  student 
musicians  playing  in  Boys,  in- 
cluding harpist  Marissa 
Smithson.  Because  the  pit  is 
so  crowded,  she  is  the  only 
musician  to  spend  the  entire 
show  on  stage. 

Karen  Lynn  Smith,  the 
physical  education  professor 
who  also  runs  the  College's 
dance  program,  came  on 
hoard  to  choreograph  three 
big  numbers.  The  WC 
Friends  of  the  Arts  ponied  up  the  money 
to  hire  a  professional  costume  designer 
Rubin,  the  director  and  a  Washington 
College  drama  professor,  designed  the 
two-story  set  that  forms  the  backdrop  for 
the  farce  that  unfolds  in  Ancient 
Greece. 

So  many  elements  are  involved, 
which  has  led  to  some  problems.  The 
singers  can't  quite  get  in  step  with  the 
orchestra.  With  such  a  big  cast,  schedul- 
ing rehearsals  has  been  a  nightmare. 
The  musicians  and  the  actors  have  only 
been  working  together  a  week  or  so,  and 
sometimes  it  shows. 

"It's  not  that  it's  that 
complicated,  it's  just  that 
my  partner  and  I  haven't 
had  that  much  time  to- 
gether," says  jami  Duffy,  a 
senior  and  veteran  ot  the 
Washington  College  stage 
who  plays  a  few  bit  parts 
in  Boys.  One  number  has 
her  dancing  with  Wash- 
ington College  Registrar 
Jack  Hamilton,  the  only 
non-student  with  a  part  in 
the  show,  and  the  two 
haven't  quite  gotten  the 
steps  down.  It  has  them 
both  nervous  about  to- 
night. Duffy  would  hate  to 
have  the  final  moments  of 
her  college  acting  career 
be  remembered  for  a  flub.        Josh  Matteau 


Stop  knocking  and  come  in!  It's  the- 
ater, tor  God's  sake,"  Jordan  Yelinek 
hollers  as  he  pulls  on  his  costume  in  the 
men's  dressing  room.  A  couple  of  the 
other  male  leads  apply  their  make-up.  A 
female  is  knocking  on  the  door,  wonder- 
ing if  the  guys  are  decent.  Most  of  them 
are  pretty  much  in  their  underwear,  but 
in  she  comes.  It's  theater,  for  God's  sake. 

Meanwhile,  on  the  darkened  stage, 
Josh  Matteau  collapses  into  the  lotus  po- 
sition, stretches  out  his  arms  and  begins 
to  mutter.  This  is  a  pre-show  ritual  for 
Matteau,  who  plays  Yelinek's  long-lost 
twin,  one  of  two  sets  separated  at  birth 
who  happen  to  wind  up  in  the  same 
Greek  town  wearing  the  same  clothes, 
the  result  being  high  jinks  that  would 
make  a  Three's  Company  writer  jealous. 

It's  all  fun,  games  and  frivolity,  but 
not  for  Matteau  at  the  moment.  In  an 
hour,  he'll  be  on  this  stage  playing  a 
gangly  fool,  but  tor  now,  his  body  is  rigid 
as  he  mutters  every  line  in  a  continuous 
monologue.  No  one  can  hear  him  but 
himself  Ten  minutes  later,  the  senior 
education  major  who  has  never  taken  an 
acting  class  bounds  upright  into  some 
karate  moves,  then  exits  Stage  Right. 


7;06  —  "I  need  everyone  to  check 
your  props!  We're  getting  ready  to 
open  the  house!" 

This  order  comes  from  Lindsay  Krieg, 
the  junior  drama  and  English  major  who 
is  the  show's  stage  manager.  That  posi- 
tion makes  her  second-in-command  un- 
der Rubin,  and  most  of  the  day-to-day — 


one  of  two  Dromios,  hams  it  up. 


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now  it's  more  minute-to-minute — ad- 
ministration is  her  responsibility.  Is  ev- 
eryone here?  Are  the  props  ready?  How's 
make-up  moving  along?  What  about  the 
light  cues? 

But  when  she  opens  the  house — 
theaterese  for  letting  the  audience  take 
their  seats — it  means  Opening  Night 
has  crossed  the  Rubicon,  that  the  only 
way  out  is  thtough  the  curtain  calls. 

Don  Holdren,  the  sophomore  who 
plays  one  ot  the  leads  as  Antipholus  of 
Syracuse  and  brings  one  of  the  show's 
best  voices  to  the  stage,  admits  to  a  few 
jitters,  but  not  many.  Not  yet. 

"We've  all  been  through  it  before," 
Holdren,  a  sophomore  double  major  in 
music  and  drama,  explains  just  outside 
the  dressing  room.  "Right  now  we're  all 
calm,  but  it's  sort  of  the  calm  before  the 
storm.  It's  always  worst  about  five  sec- 
onds before  you  go  on  stage." 

Fifteen  minutes  later,  Holdren  takes  a 
seat  in  the  crowded  Green  Rtiom,  where 
cast  and  crew  have  assembled  tor 
Rubin's  Opening  Night  speech.  He's 
been  missing  until  now — about  20  min- 
utes before  Show  Time — causing  some 
to  wonder.  But  Rubin  just  gets  too  emo- 
tional, some  older  hands  say,  so  he  likes 
to  arrive  at  the  last  minute. 

With  a  packed  room  before  bmi, 
Rubin  asks  tor  their  attention  and  be- 
gins. Then  stops.  Then  laughs.  His  eyes 
are  wet.  He  begms  again. 

"Musicals  are  lite-affirming,"  Rubin 
says  in  a  voice  that  jerks  into  a  shout. 
"It's  your  job  to  convey  the  joy  and  the 
positiveness  ot  the  musical  to  the  audi- 
ence." Moments  later,  he  adds:  "Comedy 
is  hard  work,  and  you've  done  it." 

Hugs  toUow,  and  actors  who  are  also 
graduating  seniors  wish  him  their  own 
sort  of  good-byes,  knowing  this  is  their 
final  Opening  Night  at  Washington 
College.  The  speech  was  short  and 
sweet,  and  Rubin  assures  them  he  is 
confident  they'll  do  well — better,  he 
says,  than  last  night. 


See  him?  He's  right  there.  That's  my 
best  friend."  In  a  dusty,  dark  alcove 
above  the  theater,  Yelinek  is  looking 
down  on  the  audience  at  his  best  friend, 
who  has  traveled  from  the  western  shore 
to  see  Yelinek  in  his  first  major  role  at 
Washington  College  after  coming  here 
as  a  freshman  in  the  fall. 

The  curtain  is  set  to  rise  in  about 
three  minutes,  so  Yelinek  doesn't  have 


Musical  Director  Garry  Clarke  warms  up  the  cast — Including  one  of  the  leads,  Don  ttoldren.  with 
some  vocal  exercises  about  25  minutes  before  Show  Time. 


much  time.  About  200  people  are  scat- 
tered across  the  theater,  dotting  the 
seats  like  sunhathers  looking  for  their 
own  spot  on  the  beach.  "Looks  like  a 
pretty  good  audience,"  he  says. 

Two  minutes  later,  in  the  darkened 
recess  of  Stage  Left,  two  stagehands  are 
eyeing  a  wooden  rack  that  holds  a  dozen 
staffs  for  the  opening  number.  The  cast 
will  thrust  those  staffs  into  the  rack 
once  they  rush  off  stage,  then  quickly 
change  tor  their  next  entrances.  It's  a 
quick  maneuver,  but  the  rack  is  a  bit  in 
the  way,  so  the  stagehands  move  it  hack 
a  few  paces. 

"Wait  a  minute,"  Assistant  Stage 
Manager  Kate  Mahoney  says.  "This  is 
going  to  freak  them  out." 

The  rack  goes  back.  The  curtain  goes 
up.  The  Boys  from  Syracuse  has  begun. 

This  is  a  drama  of  ancient  Greece. 

It  is  a  story  of  mistaken  identity. 

If  it's  good  enough  for  Shakespeare,  it's 
good  enough  for  us . 

The  opening  lines  ot  the  14-member 
chorus  set  the  tone  for  the  show,  a 
tongue-in-cheek  rendition  of  The  Com- 
edy of  Errors.  The  song  that  follows — 
"Ha-rah,  Ha-rooh/There'U  be  an  execu- 
tion"— reveals  the  show's  other  dimen- 
sion: a  throwback  to  the  artificially 
sweetened  musicals  of  the  1940s. 

Three  minutes  in,  and  the  laughs  are 


coming  at  a  trickle.  The  house  isn't 
dead,  but  it  ain't  exactly  jumpin'  either. 
Michael  Moore,  clad  in  a  shiny  satin 
robe  as  the  Merchant  of  Syracuse,  has 
just  walked  offstage  trom  a  slapstick 
scene  that  gave  him  trouble  last  night. 

"It  went  well,  I  thought,"  he  says,  eye- 
ing the  action  onstage.  "I  had  some 
laughs,  too.  That's  the  best  thing."  Mean- 
while Mahoney,  the  assistant  stage  man- 
ager, is  relieved.  The  Slaves  are  here. 

The  Slave,s — known  in  real  life  as 
Mike  Storke  and  Carlton  Hughes — are 
not,  Mahoney  notes,  "theater  people." 
One  cast  member  called  them  "The  Phi 
Delts."  Basically,  they're  two  guys  roped 
into  playing  roles  that  have  no  lines,  but 
still  keep  the  plot  rolling  along.  Garry 
Clarke,  musical  director  to  the  show  and 
Phi  Delta  Theta's  faculty  adviser,  talked 
them  into  it.  The  Slaves  explain. 

Their  costumes:  a  sheet  of  fabric 
around  the  waist  and  a  cloth  for  their 
heads. 

"It's  been  rough  being  the  most  naked 
people  on  stage,"  Hughes  jokes  from  the 
dressing  room.  This  will  be  Storke's  tri- 
umphant return  to  the  stage  after  his 
last  role:  playing  Benjamin  Franklin  in 
the  third  grade. 

"It's  a  blast,"  Storke  says,  though 
Hughes  doesn't  seem  so  sure.  "We've 
been  having  fun." 


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Jush  Matteau  is  flailing  about  onstage 
and  the  audience  loves  it.  Matteau's 
Droinio  is  a  hapless  slave,  clumsy  and 
dense,  and  his  slapstick  yanks  out  the 
night's  first  sustained  cackles  from  the 
crowd.  So  Matteau  gets  clumsier  and 
louder,  and  the  laughs  come  quicker, 
and  smiles  crackle  across  dimly  lit  faces 
backstage. 

"I  don't  really  look  out  in  the  audi- 
ence. 1  don't  think  many  people  do," 
Matteau  whispers  three  minutes  later 
from  below  the  stage  in  a  walkway  that 
will  take  him  to  Stage  Right  for  his  next 
entrance.  "But  it's  the  laughter  that  tells 
you  things  are  going  well." 

Next  the  Sorcerer — senior  Paul 
Davis — makes  his  exit  behind  a  wake  of 
laughter  that  seems  to  push  him  into  a 
tiny  bow  before  his  castmates  backstage, 
who  clap  silently  tor  him.  Ten  minutes 
later,  AJ  Rendo,  half  of  the  Antipholus 
twins  who  lead  the  show,  exits  after 
singing  a  love  song,  the  applause  follow- 
ing him  as  he  goes. 

Immediately  in  the  darkness  behind 
the  set,  his  arms  shotit  up  straight  and  two 
fingers  come  down — a  rock  singer  finish- 


ing a  killer  set.  His  repi>rt:  "What  a  rush!" 
Down  below  the  action,  Mindy  Beers, 
who  plays  Luce,  pauses  to  assess  the  mo- 
mentum. 

"It  seems  like  the  cast  has  finally 
come  together,"  she  says.  "We're  re- 
sponding to  each  other,  and  that's  mak- 
ing the  audience  respond  really  well.  It's 
a  great  audience." 


The  time  is  now  8:24,  and  there  is  a 
problem.  The  script  calls  for  Rendo's 
Antipholus  to  pound  on  a  door  because 
he's  been  locked  out  ot  his  house,  and 
Rendo  does  it  with  gusto.  He  wails 
smoke  and  thunder  on  the  plywood 
Rubin  just  finished  painting  that  after- 
noon, the  same  wooden  door  that  came 
loose  during  last  night's  dress  rehearsal 
and  clobbered  Rendo  on  the  head. 

It  was  my  fault,  stage  manager 
Mahoney  said,  and  we've  fixed  it.  But  the 
problem  was  apparently  more  stubborn 
than  the  crew  thought.  One  ot  the  latches 
that  holds  the  door  in  place  has  come 
loose.  Everyone  backstage  realizes  it;  no 
one  onstage  has  any  way  ot  knowing. 

"Oh  God,"  a  cast  member 
mouths  in  the  dark. 

Mahoney  frantically  waves 
at  Rendo,  slicing  her  throat 
with  a  tinger  to  signal  him  to 
stop,  to  go  easy.  She  edges  to- 
ward the  door,  so  that  she 
might  hold  it  in  place,  but  she 
can't  get  there  without  the  au- 
dience spotting  her.  If  it  gets 
bad,  that's  what  she'll  do,  just 
to  cut  her  losses. 


Paul  Davis'  Sorcerer  tries  his 
best  to  charm  Mary  Marland's 
Courtesan. 


Taking  their  bows.  The  cast  assembles  for 
curtain  calls  and  soaks  up  the  audience's 
roaring  approval. 


But  she  catches  Rendo's  eye,  and  he 
lays  off  the  door.  It  survives.  The  scene 
ends  without  incident. 


8:34  —  The  Slaves  enter  to  ripples  of 
giggles  that  build  into  waves  of 
laughter.  A  tew  people  clap.  The  slaves 
maintain  their  stoic  look.  Storke  betrays 
not  the  slightest  resemblance  to  Ben- 
jamin Franklin. 


Registrar  Hamilton  is  backstage  in  a 
dark  wing  off  Stage  Lett.  He  is  side- 
stepping and  swirling  his  arms  to  a  beat 
only  he  knows.  This  is  the  pantomime 
version  of  the  number  that  has  given 
him  and  Duffy — the  veteran  actor  with 
a  bit  part  fretting  over  a  flub  to  finish 
out  her  career  here — problems. 
Hamilton  told  Duffy  he'd  been  practic- 
ing, and  that  apparently  includes  be- 
tween scenes. 

Four  minutes  later,  the  curtain  is 
down.  Act  I  is  fim.  The  applause  contin- 
ues one  minute  and  12  seconds,  long 
enough  that  the  cast  and  crew  can  still 
hear  it  as  they  scurry  to  the  dressing 
rooms. 

"I  am  pumped.  I  am  so  full  of  adrena- 
line right  now — I'm  bouncing  off  the 
walls,"  Rendo  bellows.  A  few  moments 
pass  and  he  adds:  "It's  nice  when  they 
laugh  at  your  jokes." 


Do  I  look  at  all  like  a  sex  icon?" 
The  question  is  asked  by  Mary 
Marland,  a  tall  and  slender  junior  clad 


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in  a  tight-fitting,  satiny  and  very  short 
dress.  She  is  playing  a  courtesan,  which 
is  basically  an  archaic  word  for  a  lady  ot 
the  evening. 

There  has  been  some  back  and  forth 
on  whether  she  should  wear  the  short 
dress  or  the  long  dress.  Tonight,  she  goes 
with  the  short  one.  Not  a  bad  choice. 

"I've  never  played  a  whore  before," 
Marland  explains.  "This  is  acting.  This 
is  fun." 

Welcome  to  Crisis  Number 
Two.  The  actors  who  start  Act 
II  have  taken  their  places  on  stage, 
waiting  for  the  curtain  to  rise. 

The  orchestra  launches  into  its 
opening  vignette,  signaling  the  ac- 
tion to  start,  but  the  curtain  is  stuck. 
It  won't  budge,  and  there  is  panic  off- 
and  onstage.  Apparently  somebody 
forgot  to  throv\'  a  latch  and  now  The 
Sorcerer  is  jabbing  his  finger  to 
someone  offstage,  frantically  trying  to 
signal  what  needs  to  be  done.  A 
stagehand  clad  in  black  darts  across 
stage  in  full  sprint  to  help  out. 

Meanwhile,  Laura  Biri  has  taken 
her  cue  from  the  music  and  pro- 
ceeded as  planned  with  her 
character's  stroll  across  the  stage.  The 
curtain  should  have  opened  just  as 
she  began,  but  by  now  she's  all  the 
way  across  and  no  one's  seen  her. 
Then  the  orchestra,  realizing  some- 
thing was  wrong,  begins  again, 
prompting  Biri  to  wheel  around  and 
try  to  scamper  back  to  her  starting 
point. 

As  she  does,  the  latch  is  finally 
thrown  and  the  curtain  parts.  Bin  is 
caught,  out  of  character,  out  of  posi- 
tion, in  mid-hustle.  And  the  audi- 
ence knows  it. 

There  is  a  millisecond  ot  silence.  The 
actors  freeze. 

Bin  stops  on  a  dime,  wheels  about, 
flings  out  her  arms  a  la  Marilyn  Monroe 
and  mugs  for  the  crowd. 

They  clap  and  laugh  and  hoot,  and 
the  actress  with  a  few  lines  is  a  hit. 

Backstage,  the  tension  evaporates. 
One  of  the  actors  whispers:  "So  it  goes." 


The  guys  have  just  killed  with  a 
dance  number  called  "Come  With 
Me"  about  how  nice  a  place  jail  can  be. 
The  audience  loved  the  all-male  chorus 
line,  shuffling  across  the  stage  and  ham- 
ming up  their  gestures  as  they  belted  the 


songs — sometimes  on  bended  knees — to 
the  rafters. 

Once  the  troupe  exits  Stage  Right, 
the  audience  rewards  their  performance 
with  a  thousand  claps,  only  to  have  the 
group  tile  back  onstage  for  one  last  re- 
train. Only  Davis'  Sorcerer — who  just  45 
seconds  ago  was  dressed  as  his  other 
character,  the  Merchant  of  Ephesus — 
accidentally  starts  the  refrain  a  few 
stanzas  too  early,  and  his  castmates 
follow  his  lead,  not  realizing  their  mis- 
take. 


Director  Jason  Rubin  punctuates  his  instructions  to  the  cast 
with  a  classic  stage  gesture. 


The  result;  the  orchestra  ends  their 
playing  when  they're  supposed  to,  but 
the  singers  have  a  whole  verse  left  to  go. 
And  go  they  do,  singing  through  the 
lines  a  cappella,  in  tune,  on  beat  and 
just  about  perfect. 

The  audience,  ignorant  ot  the  tlub, 
roars  their  approval.  A  tew  folks  in  the 
front  bolt  out  of  their  seats  with  ap- 
plause. 

"I  can't  wait  to  see  the  note  on  that," 
Paul  Landauer  jokes  as  he  walks  off 
stage. 

Now  it's  the  ladies'  turn. 

Mindy  Beers,  Susie  Shaum  and  Kate 
Kolacki — Luce,  Adriana  and  Luciana  to 
the  audience — have  never  quite  gotten 


"Sing  for  Your  Supper"  right.  It's  a 
sweet-turned-raucous  song,  one  that 
morphs  from  a  saccharine  MGM  musical 
number  into  a  hoot-and-hoUer  vaude- 
ville act.  That's  the  idea,  anyway. 

So  the  three  women  launch  into 
"Sing  for  Your  Supper"  on  Opening 
Night,  none  of  them  really  knowing 
what  it's  like  to  nail  this  song.  Four-and- 
a-halt  minutes  later — a  string  of  mo- 
ments that  began  with  Shaum's  gossa- 
mer high  notes,  floated  into  Kolacki's 
delicate  rendition  and  ended  with  Beers' 
smoky  voice  as  a  jagged  exclamation 
point — the  applause  is  loud. 

Backstage,  Kolacki  is  jabbing  at 
her  tellow  Supper  Singers,  offering 
high  fives  and  grabbing  their  arms. 
"It  was  good!  It  was  good!" 
Moments  later,  on  a  bench  amid 
the  dark  and  silence,  she  explains  her 
excitement. 

"That's  our  problem  scene,"  she 
whispers,  breathing  heavy  and  chug- 
ging bottled  water.  "We  were  there! 
The  notes  were  there!  We  definitely 
nailed  it.  That's  the  first  time  we've 
ever  done  that.  Definitely  the  best." 
It's  almost  over  now.  Most  of  the 
actors  have  their  worries,  their  prob- 
lem scenes,  behind  them.  Now  there 
are  more  smiles  backstage  than  fur- 
rowed brows.  Time  tor  one  last  big 
dance  number,  and  that  should  be  it. 

On  stage.  Jack  Hamilton  twirls 
jami  Duffy,  and  it  looks  effortless. 
Their  feet  seem  to  move  in  synch. 
.■\nd  he  sidesteps  like  he  never 
needed  practice. 

And  then,  a  moment  or  two  later, 
the  curtain  drops.  The  claps  jolt  out 
like  lightning  strikes,  then  like  hail 
on  a  tin  roof  There  are  only  smiles 
backstage,  and  back  slapping.  Not 
many  handshakes,  lots  of  hugs.  Time  for 
curtain  calls. 

One  Slave  carries  the  other  out  in  his 
arms  for  their  bow;  the  Sorcerer  gets 
some  laughs  for  his;  Beers,  Shaum  and 
Kolacki  obviously  have  their  fans;  Don 
Holdren  sparks  an  upsurge  in  the  vol- 
ume. Everyone  crosses  to  center  stage  for 
their  applause  in  rapid  fire,  the  en- 
trances one  after  the  other. 

It  seems  to  move  too  quickly,  but 
that's  the  tradition.  Quick  bows.  Take 
your  applause  but  don't  linger. 

Tomorrow,  after  all,  is  another  show. 


Doug  Hanks  is  the  media  relations  associate 
for  the  College  and  a  freelance  writer. 


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ALUMNI 


UPDATE 


A  Revolutionary  Reunion 

T 


he  events  of  Revolu- 
tionary Reunion  1999 
were  planned  to  illus- 
trate our  College's  proud  his- 
tory," reported  Trams 
Hollingsworth  75  M'95,  di- 
rector of  Alumni  Affairs. 

So  on  May  21,  while  28 
foursomes  played  golf  in  the 
Sho'men  Cluh  Tournament, 
George  Washington  and  his 
Revolutionary  Army  (por- 
trayed by  actors  and  educa- 
tors of  the  Philadelphia  Co- 
lonial Corps)  encamped  on 
the  lawn  in  front  ot  William 
Smith  Hall.  After  dark,  while 
honored  Reunion  classes  met 
for  cocktails  all  around  Ches- 
tertown,  the  18th-century 
soldiers  and  their  camp  fol- 
lowers cooked  rabbit  over 
campfires. 

The  next  morning,  sounds 
of  fife  and  drum  and  explo- 
sions of  musket  fire  echoed 
over  the  Reunion  Picnic  at 
which  1,500  crab  cakes  were 
served.  At  one  o'clock  that 
warm,  sunny  Saturday  after- 
noon, Maryland's  Air  Na- 
tional Guard  saluted  Wash- 
ington, his  troops  and  his 
College  with  a  flyover.  Four 
fighter  jets  swooped  to  1,500 
feet  above  the  statue  of 
George  Washington.  Every- 
one on  site  saluted  as  Sue 
Dunning  Matthews  '75  sang 
"The  Star-Spangled  Ban- 
ner." 

After  the  picnic,  nation- 
ally renowned  historian  Don 
Higginbotham  lectured  on 
the  life  and  legacy  of  the 
College's  founding  patron 
and  the  country's  first  Com- 
mander in  Chief  before  a 

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standing-room-only  audience 
in  the  newly  renovated 
Norman  James  Theatre. 
That  evening,  more  than 
500  alumni  gathered  on  the 
Martha  Washington  Plaza  for 
a  starlight  dinner  dance  and 
to  listen  as  John  TciU  ad- 
dressed George  Washington, 
Class  of  1789. 

"You  must  be  proud," 
President  Toll  said  to  Presi- 
dent Washington,  "to  see  so 
many  of  your  fellow  alumni 
gathered  to  celebrate  the 
past,  present  and  future  of 
Washington  College  and  to 
realize  that  for  217  years 
your  College  has  stayed  true 
to  its  liberal  arts  tradition 


The  Philadelphia  Colonial  Fife  and  Drum  Corps  added  an  authentic  18th- 
cenlury  flair  to  Reunion  festivities.  Corps  members  camped  out  on  the 
College  lawn  displayed  surgical  tools,  weapons  and  musical  Instruments 
tram  the  1780s. 


and  your  vision — that  our 
graduates  have  and  will  con- 
tinue to  go  forth  and  con- 
tribute to  the  happiness  of 


their  communities,  nations 
and  the  world."  To  illustrate 
total  alumni  contributions 
since  1996  to  the  Campaign 
for  Washington's  College, 


LIFESTYLES 

Alumnae  Speak  Out  On 
Women's  Work 


ow  Many  Choices  Do  Working  Women  Really 
Have?"  asked  Rosalind  King  (fourth  from  left), 
lecturer  in  the  College's  department  of  sociology  and 
anthropology.  Alumnae  responded  with  their  experi- 
enced insights  about  juggling  family  and  careers  as  undergraduate  women  paid  close  attention.  Partici- 
pants in  this  panel  discussion  were  (left  to  right)  Lucy  Hughes  Wagner  '84,  a  capital  markets  recruiting 
and  training  manager  at  Legg  Mason  Walker,  Inc.;  Linda  Towne  Cades  '67,  director  of  the  College's  Cen- 
ter for  Career  Development;  Valarie  Sheppard  '86,  associate  research  scientist  at  Human  Performance 
Systems;  Professor  King;  Vema  Wilkins  Hensley  '79,  Delaware  communications  director  for  U.S.  Sena- 
tor Bill  Roth;  and  Susie  Chase  Wittich  '90,  a  homemaker  and  mother  of  two.  Colleen  Moran  '93,  the 
first  female  member  of  the  Delaware  Bay  Pilots'  Association,  participated,  but  is  not  pictured. 

"You  can  have  it  all,"  these  parents,  professionals  and  pioneers  concurred  in  refuting  the  myth  of  their 
undergraduate  days,  "but  you  must  make  careful,  informed  decisions — ^because  you  cannot  have  it  all  at 
the  same  time."  t 


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WASHINGTON.  COLLEGE-MAGAZINE 


Washington  College  Fund 
chairman  Ed  Athey  '47  pre- 
sented Dr.  Toll  with  a  check 
in  the  amount  of 
$12,345,435. 

"It  was  a  wonderful  week- 
end," Trams  said,  "yet  tor  me 
the  proudest  and  happiest 
event  ot  Reunion  '99  was 
not  planned.  We  had 
planned  that  Ermyn  Jewell 
Heck  and  Dorothy  Woodall 
Myers  from  the  75th  Re- 
union Class  of  1924  would 
lead  the  Commencement 
Processional.  But  when  Glen 
Beehe  '81,  president  ot  the 
Alumni  Association,  was 
given  his  marching  orders 
on  Sunday  morning,  only 
Dorothy  Myers  was  present 
to  take  his  arm.  Glen  and 
Dorothy,  at  the  front  of  the 
processional,  were  followed 
by  the  50th  Reunion  Class 
of  1949  and  by  the  Senior 
Class  of  1999  in  their  long 
black  robes.  But  before  the 
Board  of  Visitors  and  Gover- 
nors, President  Toll,  and 
honored  guests  Yang, 
Higginbotham  and  Kennedy 
could  follow,  the  parade  up 
the  shady  brick  sidewalk 
mysteriously  stalled. 

"Ermyn  Heck  had  arrived 
late.  Wearing  her  75th  Re- 
union sash  and  supported  by 
her  son,  she  was  making  her 
way  slowly  up  the  walk.  A 
group  of  seniors  stepped  to 
either  side  of  her  path,  clap- 
ping and  cheering  wildly. 
They  tipped  their  mortar- 
boards as  she  passed  between 
their  ranks  smiling  and  wav- 
ing like  a  queen.  It  was 
thrilling.  It  was,  in  my 
memory,  the  moment  that 
most  effectively  illustrated 
who  we  are — Washington 
College,  the  Classes  of  1924 
through  1999." 

Reunion  '99  photographs, 
both  class  portraits  and 
candids,  can  be  viewed  on 
the  College's  alumni  web 
site  at  www.washcoll.edu. 
The  site  is  linked  to  North- 
east Photo,  from  whom  class 
pictures  may  be  ordered.  I 


Commodore, 
Swanstrom 
Elected  to 
Board 


ALUMNI  RECENTLY 
elected  two  business 
executives  to  serve  on 
the  Washington  College 
Board  of  Visitors  and 
Governors.  Norris  W  Com- 
modore '73,  a  regional  credit 
manager  with  IBM,  and 
Daryl  Lynch  Swanstrom  '69, 
owner  and  chief  executive 
officer  of  Spryaflo,  begin 
their  six-year  terms  on  the 
Board  July  1. 

As  manager  of  customer 
financing  at  IBM  Credit 
Corporation  in  New  York, 
Commodore  is  responsible 
for  the  division  that  helps 
customers  finance  informa- 
tion technology  solutions  in 
the  northeast  United  States. 
With  his  wife  Theresa  Wood 
'74,  he  is  a  member  ot  The 
1782  Society. 

Commodore,  a  native  of 
Chestertown,  graduated  with 
a  degree  in  mathematics  and 
began  his  career  with  IBM 
immediately  after  gradua- 
tion. An  enthusiastic  sup- 
porter of  the  liberal  arts  for 
educating  critical  thinkers 
and  problem  solvers.  Com- 
modore credits  much  of  his 
success  to  Washington  Col- 
lege. 

Swanstrom  brings  to  the 
Board  her  expertise  in  stra- 
tegic planning,  management 
and  development  skills,  and 
the  insights  of  her  profes- 
sional experience  in  rapidly 


Daryl  Swanstrom  '69  (left)  and 
Norris  Commodore  '73  are  new 
alumni  representatives  on  the 
Board  ot  Visitors  and  Governors. 
Both  previously  served  on  the 
Visiting  Committee. 


NETWORK 

Family  Chemistry 

lien  Dr.  Ricliard  Smitli  '66 
returned  to  campus  in  April  to  give 
a  lecture  on  tiis  computational  approaches 
to  ttie  design  of  anti-AIDS  drugs,  ttiree 
generations  of  Wasliington  College  cliem- 
ists  came  to  listen.  Pictured  {from  top) 
are:  former  WC  cliemistry  professor  Dr. 
Bernard  Haslce,  who  was  the  first  to  sug- 
gest to  Smith  that  he  pursue  graduate 
studies  in  chemistry;  Dr.  Smith,  a  profes- 
sor of  chemistry  at  Western  Maryland  College,  1 995  Maryland 
Chemist  of  the  Year,  and  author  of  50  peer-reviewed  publications; 
Dr.  Frank  Creegan,  professor  of  chemistry  at  Washington  College; 
and  students  Tasha  Eberly  '99  and  Justin  Holler  '00. 

Eberly  is  spending  her  summer  working  as  a  researcher  at  NIH's 
National  Cancer  Institute.  Justin  Holler  is  spending  his  summer  as 
a  technician  in  Fort  Dietrich's  Cancer  Research  Laboratory.  Dr. 
Smith  received  the  1999  Alumni  Citation  at  commencement 
ceremonies  in  May  in  recognition  of  his  contributions  as  a  research 
scientist  and  teacher.  I 


expanding  business.  She 
owns  and  operates  a  business 
in  Atlanta  that  manufac- 
tures fasteners  for  the  com- 
puter industry — a  business 
inherited  from  her  late  hus- 
band, Lawrence  W. 
Swanstrom  '67.  After  two 
years  at  Washington  Col- 
lege, she  left  to  marry  the 
graduating  political  science 
major  and  finished  her  de- 
gree in  industrial  manage- 


ment at  Georgia  Institute  of 
Technology.  With  the  1986 
death  of  her  husband,  she 
took  over  the  leadership  of 
Spryaflo,  a  subsidiary  ot 
Perm  Manufacturing,  as  well 
as  that  of  Engineered  Com- 
ponents, which  was  recently 
sold.  Under  her  administra- 
tion annual  sales  from  these 
companies  grew  twelvefold 
and  customer  base  expanded 
fifteenfold.  k 


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1940 

MARGARET  ELLWANGER 

raised  a  toast  to  George  Wash- 
ington on  his  birthday. 

MILTON  F.V.  GLOCK  SR. 

was  awarded  a  Past  Chairman 
pin  for  senice  to  the  Louisville, 
KY,  chapter  ot  the  American 
Chemical  Society  in  1960. 

1942 

JOHN  A.  HARRIS 

writes:  "For  the  fourth  time  in 
15  years,  this  time  in  May  1998, 
1  retired  from  the  U.S.  Postal 
Service  where  1  served  as  relief 
postmaster  in  a  small  one-man 
post  office.  Health  problems  dic- 
tated the  retirement  but  1  am 
now  gradually  feeling  better." 

1946 

BARBARA  CAWLEY 

and  her  husband,  Wayne,  raised 
a  toast  to  George  Washington 
with  a  Dr.  Pepper  m  celebration 
of  the  WC  patron's  birthday. 

1949 

HILDA  COHEN  BENNETT 

and  her  husband,  Edward  Jim 
Bennett  '49,  will  celebrate  their 
50th  wedding  anniversary  this 
August. 


ERNIE  COOKERLY 

has  become  addicted  to  the  game 
ot  golf  and  has  been  privileged  to 
play  many  ot  the  courses  on  the 
east  coast  from  Pine  Valley,  NJ, 
to  the  TPC  at  Sawgrass  near 
Jacksonville,  FL.  In  addition,  he 
has  played  some  of  the  courses  in 
Ireland  and  Scotland,  including 
the  tabled  St.  Andrew's  course. 
He  expects  to  play  .some  of  the 
British  courses  shortly  after  his 
50rh  reunion. 

AL  CRIMMINS 

still  lives  at  the  Carousel  Hotel 
and  IS  the  owner  ot  Crimmins 
Associates  Real  Estate  on  134th 
Street  in  Ocean  City,  MD. 

RAY  JONES 

recei\ed  tlie  Distinguished  Fly- 
ing Cross  on  November  8,  1998, 
for  his  performance  during 
World  War  11.  Jones  flew  28 
combat  missions  between  Janu- 
ary and  June  1944,  when  he  was 
shot  dowii  by  enemy  anti-aircraft 
fire  over  LeBourget,  France, 
while  on  a  bombing  mission. 
Sergeant  Jones  was  a  tail  gunner 
on  a  B- 17  Flying  Fc^rtress. 

CATHERINE  HURST  STEVENS 

keeps  111  touch  with  fellow  alum- 
nae Shirley  Gunther  Bremer  '49, 


g^ 


Ermyn  Jewell  Heck  and  Dorothy  Woodall  Myers,  members  of  the  Class  of 
1924,  celebrated  their  75th  Reunion  in  May. 


Mary-  Lou  Davis  '49,  Thelma 
Nickerson  O'Grady  '49,  and 
Anita  Starlings  Moore  '49. 

BIX  WHEELER 

and  his  wife,  Joy  '48,  attended 
their  second  50th  reunion  in 
Chestertown.  Bix  was  chairman 
of  the  50th  class  reunion. 


Dr.  Charles  B.  Clark  '34,  celebrat- 
ing his  65th  Reunion,  catches  up 
with  Miriam  'Mim  "  Ford  Hottecker 
'34  during  the  "Older  and  Wiser" 
reception  at  Hynson-Ringgold 
House. 


1952 

REVEREND  ROBERT  C.  HICKS 

is  honorably  retired  but  still  very 
active.  He  will  celebrate  49  years 
in  the  ministry,  which  he  en- 
tered when  he  was  a  student 
minister  in  St.  James  Methodist 
Chufch  in  Worton,  MD. 

1953 

JANE  BRADLEY  LOWE 

miuiaged  to  raise  a  toast  to 
George  Washington  on  February 
22,  even  if  it  was  only  a  cup  of 
coffee. 

JOHN  B.  WHEELER 

is  retired  from  teaching  (after  32 
years)  and  from  the  active  minis- 


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try  of  the  Episcopal  Church  (af- 
ter 43  years).  He  and  his  wife, 
Helen,  plan  to  continue  to  live 
in  Edgewater,  FL,  their  home 
now  for  3  5  years. 

1954 

DONNA  ROLLS 

retired  aii:er  17  years  with  Pa- 
cific Horticulture  and  celebrated 
with  a  luncheon  at  Chez 
Panisse.  Living  in  Berkeley,  CA, 
she  is  doing  some  volunteer 
work  with  her  church  and  is  tu- 
toring and  reading  with  kinder- 
gartners  and  Laotians  in  an  af- 
ter-school program. 

1957 

MYRA  BONHAGE-HALE 

writes:  "After  years  of  social 
work,  I  retired  early  and  started 
the  La  Paix  Herb  Farm  in  West 
Virginia.  La  Paix  is  a  model  of 
organic  growing  and  display  gar- 
dens, workshops  and  tours.  1  also 
keep  busy  as  the  president  of 
Mountain  State  Dousers,  and 
past  president  of  the  West  Vir- 
ginia Herb  Association.  As  a  re- 
sult of  a  sustainable  research 
grant,  I  spoke  at  the  Farmers/ 
Scientists  Conference  at  Yale 
University  in  1998." 

1958 

KATHLEEN  BRACKEn  WHITE  M'80 

is  teaching  at  Gunston  Day 
School  in  Centreville,  MD,  and 
enjoys  a  renewed  acquaintance 
with  the  WC  psychology  de- 
partment through  a  former 
Gunston  student  now  studying 
atWC. 

1959 

BOB  BESLEY 

works  for  a  mortgage  company 
on  a  contract  with  the  FDIC. 

BOB  BRAGG 

writes:  "My  wife  Deirdre  and  1 
enjoy  living  in  California  be- 
cause no  one  here  thinks  we're 
strange!" 

ELEANOR  SEWELL  BRIGGS 

retired  from  a  career  in 
Maryland's  public  education  sys- 
tem in  1995  and  enjoys  spend- 
ing time  with  family  and  friends 
and  traveling  with  her  husband, 
Randy. 

DONALD  R.  CLAUSEN 

writes:  "Since  1987  it's  been  golf 
(12  handicap),  reading,  hiking. 


and  gambling  (horse  racing 
only)." 

TOM  CROUSE 

spearheaded  his  extremely  suc- 
cessful 40th  Reunion  at  WC 
this  past  May.  Tom  li\'es  with 
his  wife,  Kay  Enokido,  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  where  he  is  presi- 
dent of  CIG  International,  a 
commercial  real  estate  develop- 
ment firm  he  founded  more 
than  a  decade  :igo. 

MELVIN  HUNTER 

is  a  scuba  diN'ing  instnictor,  div- 
ing in  Honduras  and  in  the  Cay- 
man Islands.  He  also  enjoys  fish- 
ing in  Alaska  and  the  Boundary 
Waters  Area.  "Retirement  is 
great!" 

ROBERT  KELLY 

has  completed  35  years  as  a 
United  Methodist  pastor  in  the 
Peninsula- Delaware  Conference. 

ELLEN  JO  STERLING  LITSI 

purchased  her  first  computer  last 
year  and  is  enjoying  keeping  up 
correspondence  via  e-mail. 

BOB  TYSON 

and  his  wife,  Helen  '57,  hosted 
the  40th  Reunion  cocktail  parry 
at  their  home  in  Chestertown. 
Bob  is  active  with  the  Kent 
County  Historical  Society  where 
he  served  as  president  for  three 
years  and  is  on  the  board  of  di- 
rectors. 

JIM  SCOTT 

is  still  working  in  the  insurance/ 
financial  services  business. 
"Great  being  back  in  the 
South — only  playing  golf  three 
days  a  week!" 

1960 

WARREN  DEFRANK 

retired  in  June  after  35  years  of 
teaching  Gemian  and  French  in 
Redding,  CT.  He  spends  his 
winters  in  Fort  Lauderdale,  FL. 

1962 

WARREN  MILBERG 

continues  to  serve  the  Fairfax 
County,  VA,  community  as  a 
court-appointed  special  advo- 
cate (CASA)  for  abused  and 
neglected  children.  He  is  also 
continuing  his  exploration  of 
the  Chesapeake  Bay  in  his 
sloop.  Flexible  Flyer. 


1963 

BARBARA  FREY  AGNEW 

has  served  as  the 
assistant  to  the 
Speaker  of  the  House 
in  Vennont  for  the 
past  six  years.  Her  po- 
sition is  year-round, 
but  is  far  less  frenetic 
during  the  non-session 
months.  Her  Wash- 
ington College  train- 
ing has  served  her  well 
along  with  the  experi- 
ences gained  from 
teaching  school,  years 
of  small  journalistic 
endea\'ors,  work  as  a 
legal  secretary  and 
paralegal,  being  a  Cub 
Scout  Den  Mother, 
etc.  "1  look  forward  to 
seeing  all  the  changes 
in  Chestertown  in  the 
not-too-distant 
future." 


Six  Wheeler  '49  (left),  pictured  here  with 
Jean  Urtfer  Africa  '49,  chaired  the  50th 
Reunion  Committee. 


MICHAEL  L.  PERNA 

chaired  a  session  on 
Literature  of  the  Holocaust  at 
the  convention  of  the  Northeast 
Modem  Language  Association 
in  Pittsburgh,  PA,  in  April 
1999. 

1964 

STANLEY  ISRAEL 

has  become  the  dean  of  science 
at  Southwest  Texas  State  Uni- 
versity after  spending  30  years  as 
the  head  of  the  chemistry  de- 
partment at  the  Uni\'ersity  of 
Massachusetts. 


1967 


ROBIN  RODAR 

is  the  library/technology  coordi- 
nator at  the  Santa  Clara  Pueblo 
Reservation  in  New  Mexico. 
She  writes,  "Sam  and  1  really 
enjoyed  our  30th  WC  Reunion 
in  1997!" 

1969 

LOUISE  MASTEN  AMICK, 

assistant  professor  of  mathemat- 
ics at  Washington  College,  was 
granted  tenure  this  spring. 


At  the 

Reunion 

dinner-dance, 

Ellen  Corddry 

George  '49 

dances  with 

her  husband, 

Tom,  to  music 

provided  by 

Jr.  Cline  and 

the  Recliners. 


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BIRTHS 

To  Anya  Lipnick  Bent  '84  and 
husband  Dana,  a  daughter,  Dana 
Gretchen,  on  April  28,  1998. 
Dana  joins  big  sister  Nyla 
Kathryn,  age  3. 

To  Elizabeth  "Bitsy"  Speno 
Cramer  '84  and  husband  Rob,  a 
son,  Maxwell  Eaton  Cramer,  on 
November  24,  1998.  Max  joins 
big  brother  Eddie,  age  1 1. 

To  Kathryn  Engle  Stallings  '84 
and  Joe  Stallings  '84,  a  daughter, 
Caroline  Kathryn,  on  December 
3,  1998.  Caroline  joins  big 
brother  Clark,  age  4. 

To  Laurie  Betz  Tillet  '84  and  hus- 
band Dan,  a  daughter,  Emily 
Marie,  on  January  8,  1999. 

To  Paul  Amirata  '85  and  wife 
Rene  Jerome  Amirata  '88,  a  son, 
Daniel  John,  on  May  8,  1998. 
Daniel  joins  big  brother  Peter 
Jerome,  age  4. 

To  Cheryl  Clagett  Keller  '85  and 
Kurt  Keller  '86,  a  daughter, 


Megan  Elizabeth,  on  February 
22,  1999,  George  Washington's 
birthday. 

To  Nimi  Natan  '85  and  wife 
Denise,  a  daughter.  Tali  Marshall, 
on  March  12,  1999.  TaUjoms 
big  brother  Daniel,  age  5. 

To  Carolyn  Ellis  Sands  '85  and 
husband  Sean,  a  daughter, 
Lauren  Ellis,  on  September  7, 
1998.  Lauren  joins  big  sister 
Maggie,  age  2. 

To  Ellen  Davis  Sperber  '85  and 
husband  Ken,  a  daughter, 
Kendall  Elizabeth,  on  December 
27,  1998. 

To  Lauren  Ebaugh  Halterman 
'87  and  husband  Chuck 
Halterman  '89  a  son,  James 
Todd,  on  May  28,  1999.  James 
joins  big  sister  Alex,  age  5,  and 
big  brother  Riley,  age  3. 

To  Ben  Hinkle  '89  and  wife 
Linda,  a  son,  Hayden  Jeffrey,  on 
September  2,  1998. 

To  Laleh  Malek  Smec  '90  and 
husband  Robert,  a  daughter, 


Under  the  leadership  of  Tom 
Grouse  '59  (center),  his  40th 
Reunion  Class  raised  $65,000  for 
the  restoration  of  Norman  James 
Theatre.  He  is  shown  here  with  his 
wife,  Kay,  and  Gil  Ryan  '59. 


STEVE  AMICK 

was  re-elected  to  his  second  term 
in  the  Delaware  State  Senate 
and  was  elected  hy  the  Republi- 
can caucus  as  Senate  Minority 
Leader.  In  January  he  received 
the  Delaware  State  Bar  Asso- 
ciation's annual  Distinguished 
Legislative  Service  Award. 


Nadia  Petra,  on  January  21, 
1999. 

To  Kelli  Farrell  '91  and  Todd 
Helbhng,  a  son,  Jonah,  on  De- 
cember 2,  1998.  He  joins  big 
brother  Luke,  age  2. 


i 


To  Michelle  Darling  Mtimet 
'9 1  and  husband  Mohamed,  a 
son,  Adam  Mohamed  Mtimet, 
on  October  21,  1998. 

To  Cliff '91  and  Alice  t^| 

Schroeder,  a  son,  Louis  Henry, 
on  March  22,  1999.   Henry  is 
the  fourth  grandchild  of  Board 
of  Visitors  and  Governors 
Chairman  Cliff  Schroeder. 


SHANNON  ELLIS  DYER 

an^l  lur  husband,  Andy  'M, 
missed  Reunion  this  year  be- 
cause their  older  son  Drew  was 
graduated  from  the  College  of 
William  &  Mary  on  May  16. 
The  William  &  Mary  choir  (of 
which  Drew  is  president)  began 
their  three-week  European  tour 
on  May  18  with  the  Dyer  family 
in  tow.  The  choir  was  invited  to 
sing  for  the  pope  at  St.  Peter's 
Basilica  on  May  20.  "Please  give 
all  of  our  classmates  our  very 
best  wishes." 

1970 

DR.  GINNYCOLFELT  ARTHUR 

represented  Washmgton  College 
at  the  inauguration  of  Jack  R. 
Ohle  as  president  of  Wartburg 
College  in  Waverly,  lA. 

DEBBIE  GREEN 

is  taking  early  retirement  from 
her  academic  career  at  age  50  to 
pursue  her  interest  in  writing 
and  consulting  on  natural  re- 
source management  issues. 

1971 

BILL  EWING 

IS  the  new  principal  at  Sts.  Peter 
and  Paul  High  School  in  Easton, 
MD.  After  20  years  of  service 
with  the  U.S.  Air  Force  he  be- 
gan his  second  career  as  a 
teacher  He  has  been  teaching 
math  and  computer  instruction 
at  Sts.  Peter  and  Paul  since  1992. 

DOROTHY  LINDSTROM 

left  the  weekly  newspaper  busi- 
ness as  managing  editor  of  three 
newspapers  in  July  1998  to  be- 
come managing  editor  ot  Mi<lti- 
Hoitsing  News,  a  monthly  trade 
magazine  published  by  Miller 
Freeman  Inc.  in  New  York  City. 
"Commuting  on  the  train  has 
been  challenging,  to  say  the 
least,  but  the  energy  in  the  city 
is  invigorating.  All  1  can  say 
about  the  topics  I  have  to  cover 
is:  I  wish  1  had  gotten  a  better 
grade  in  Econ  101,  taught  way 
back  then  by  Dr.  Knowles.  Oh, 
well..." 

1972 

MARCIA  INVERNIZZI 

teaches  graduate  and  under- 
graduate students  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Virginia's  Curry  School  of 
Education,  focusing  primarily  on 
a  project  called  Phonological 
Awareness  Literacy  screening, 


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which  pinpoints  early  on  those 
elementary  school  children  in 
need  of  additional  reading  in- 
staiction. 


1974 


ROBERT  FARWELL 

has  been  selected  as  the  new  di- 
rector of  the  nonprofit  Con- 
necticut Ri\'er  Museum  in 
Essex,  CT. 

LISA  TURNER 

was  teanireil  m  the  May/lune  is- 
sue ot  FA  An'ario?!  News  (in  an 
article  written  by  Knstina 
Tatusko  Henry  '88),  an  aviation 
mag;irine  published  by  the  Fed- 
eral Aviation  Administration 
(FAA).  As  both  builder  and  pi- 
lot of  her  own  Pulsar  XP,  Lisa's 
was  the  cover  photo  for  that  is- 
sue. Lisa's  airplane,  a  160  mph 
two-seater,  was  completed  after 
1,840  hours  of  constniction  in 
the  garage  ot  her  Boca  Raton 
home.  With  over  150  hotirs  on 
this  plane,  Lisa  is  considering  a 
RotorWay  helicopter  as  her  next 
project.  Any  interested  parties 
looking  for  a  Pulsar  can  browse 
her  Web  page  at  http:// 
pages.prodigy.net/Usatunier 

TRACY  WOLF 

was  promoted  to  manager  ot  to- 
tal quality  management  tor  the 
Instniment  Division  at  Mine 
Safety  Appliances,  Co.,  in  Pitts- 
burgh, PA. 

1975 

KATHY  MYRICK  DEPROSPO 

has  been  named  communiry  di- 
rector for  the  Gardens  at  Wliite- 
chapel,  a  hdl-service  assisted-liv- 
ing  community  in  Newark,  DE. 

JIM  GEORGE 

"The  Pearl"  is  a  financial  con- 
sultant for  the  Institute  for  Ven- 
ture Capital,  Ltd.,  in  Grand 
Cayman  Island.  He  and  his  wife, 
Melissa,  have  tour  children  and 
live  in  Hilton  Head,  SC. 

LAURA  OLIVER 

recei\'ed  her  master's  in  fine  arts 
degree  in  creative  writing  and 
literature  from  Bennington  Col- 
lege and  has  had  piece  of  fiction 
accepted  for  publication  in  the 
literary  quarterly  Glimmer  Train. 

1976 

HARRY  SMITH 

IS  president  of  the  Maryland 


The  30th  Reunion  Class  of  1969  came  to  the  Starlight  Dinner  Dance  prepared  for  rain.  Despite  an  early  sprinkle, 
the  weather  held  throughout  the  evening. 


Grape  Growers  Association 
(MGGA)  and  lives  in 
Westover,  MD,  where  he  grows 
commercial  grade  crops  for 
Maryland  \ineyards. 


1978 

ROBERT  DUNN 

is  the  vice  president  in  business 
banking  at  PNC  Bank  in 
Middletown,  DE. 


What  Can  A  Lead  Trust  Do  For  You? 

lead  \'led\i't>  1  a:  to  guide  on  a  way  asp.  by  going  in  advance, 
trust  \'trast\?r  1  a:  assured  reliance  on  the  character,  ability, 

strength,  or  truth  of  someone  or  something. 
example:  L.  Clifford  Schroeder,  chair  of  the  Board  of  Visitors 
and  Governors,  recently  created  the  first  lead  trust  to  benefit 
Washington  College  and  his  grandchildren.  The  trust  will 
make  payments  to  the  College  for  15  years.  A  lead  trust  is  an 
ideal  way  to  make  meaningful  charitable  gifts  and  significant 
transfers  of  wealth  to  children  or  grandchildren  while  also 
getting  substantial  tax  benefits.  Current  low  IRS  discount 
rates*  mean  the  tax  benefits  of  a  lead  trust  are  at  an  all-time 
high.  A  lead  trust  may  provide  you  with  significant  estate  and 
gift  tax  advantages  while  also  setting  an  example  of  leadership, 
character,  and  strength  for  others  to  follow. 

*Since  the  discount  rate  changes  monthly  this  opportunity  could  pass 
quickly.  Now  may  be  an  excellent  time  to  check  with  your  legal  or 
financial  adviser  regarding  a  lead  trust  benefiting  you. 

For  more  information  on  this  or  other  gift- 
planning  strategies,  please  contact: 
Don  Moore,  associate  vice  president  for 
development,  at  1-800-422-1782,  ext.  7411,  or  at 
don.moore@washcoll.edu. 


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LINDA  HAMILTON 

has  been  busy  working  on  inde- 
pendent films,  including  a  com- 
ecty  titled  American  Pie,  and  a 
drama  with  Bill  PtiUman  titled 
The  Guilty.  Linda  also  was  seen 
on  television  in  The  Color  of 
Courage,  a  drama  featured  on 
the  USA  Network  in  February. 

REVEREND  CARLOS  E.  W/ILTON 

became  moderator  of 
Monmouth  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  will  continue  to 
ser\'e  as  pastor  of  the  Point 
Pleasant,  NJ,  Presbyterian 
Church. 

1979 

EMIL  'BUDDY'  SUECK 

and  his  son  Emil  were  guests  of 
President  and  Mrs.  John  Toll  for 
a  lunch  at  the  Hynson-Ringgold 
House  following  the  Caspersen 
Cup  crew  races  on  March  27. 

1981 

DAVID  BATE 

sends  greetings  to  his  fomier 
quad-mates.  "Living  in  Bangor, 
ME,  with  my  wife,  Barbara  Pow- 
ers Bate,  and  our  children, 
Elissa,  age  7,  and  Keegan,  age  5. 
Enjoy  biking,  camping,  hiking, 
and  fishing  with  family.  Make 
regular  contact  with  brother 
Andy  '84  and  see  him  in  Florida 
and  Maine  semi-annually.  Fi- 
nally made  partner  in  Law  Of- 
fices of  David  Bate.  Look  me  up 
at  davebate@mint.net." 


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KATHY  WAVE 

repre^entti.1  Washington  College 
at  the  inaufJiiration  ot  Robert  A. 
Miller  as  the  eighth  president  of 
Nazareth  College  in  Rochester, 
NY. 

1982 

SARAH  SMITH  (M  95) 

is  an  addictions  counselor  tor 
high  school  adolescents  at 
Easton  High  School  in  Mary- 
land. 

1983 

BOB  COALE 

earned  his  Ph.D.  in  Spanish  lit- 
erature from  the  Universite  de 
Paris  IV-Sorbonne. 

BRIA  BECKMAN  LAWRENCE 

mo\'ed  to  Frederick,  MO,  from 
Bethesda  with  her  husband, 
John  '82,  and  daughters  Hadley, 
age  6,  and  Rannery,  age  2.  Bria 
still  gets  together  with  fellow 
alumni  many  times  a  year. 


1984 


STEPHANIE  PAUP 

is  a  reference  librarian  at  Nixon 
Hargrove  in  Washington,  D.C. 


1985 


SANDY  HIORTDAHL 

is  living  in  Chestertown.  An  ad- 
junct faculty  member  at  the 
University  of  Delaware  and 
Chesapeake  College,  she  re- 
ceived her  MFA  in  creative 
writing  from  George  Mason 
University  in  1991  and  expects 
to  receive  her  master's  degree  in 
English  literature  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maryland  in  1 999.  She 
continues  to  write  fiction  and 
hopes  to  publish  a  literary  maga- 
zine, M7Stt'7TOus  Pocket,  this 
spring.  She  presented  a  paper  on 
morality  and  fiction  at  the  sec- 
ond annual  John  Gardner  Con- 
ference last  April. 


Richard  Gray  '79  poses  with  his 
first  wife.  Joanne  Miller  '79,  and 
his  current  wife,  Kim  Von  Parish, 
at  a  cocktail  party  at  the  Truslow 
Boathouse.  Dicky  chaired  the 
good-  spirited  20th  Reunion  with 
Doug  "Moondog"  Megargee  '79. 


From  left:  Doug  Plieffer  '75,  Fuzzy 
Norris  '74,  Barry  Drew  '70,  and 
Greg  Lane  '74  reminisce  at  the 
25th  Reunion  reception  at  the 
Hynson  Pavilion.  Norris  and  Lane 
chaired  the  25th  Reunion 
Committee  lor  the  class  of  1974. 


NIMI  NATAN 

li\es  in  Bucks  County,  PA,  with 
his  wife,  Denise,  and  their 
children,  Daniel  and  Tali.  Tliey 
can  be  reached  at 
nnatan@ardshiel.com. 

KELLY  CUPKA  VAN  ISHEM 

is  working  at  the  Division  of  De- 
velopmental Disabilities  for  the 
State  of  New  Jersey,  investigat- 
ing abuse,  neglect,  and  exploita- 
tion of  the  developmentally  dis- 
abled in  community  placements. 
She  catches  up  with  WC  friends 
as  often  as  possible. 

1986 

PAUL  EICHLER 

completed  seven-and-a-half 
years  with  the  Anne  Amndel 
County  (MD)  EMS/Fire/Rescue. 
He  is  stationed  at  Riva,  Station 
Three,  on  Riva  Road  west  of 
Annapolis. 

LISA  HEWEH 

li\es  in  Alexandria,  VA,  and  is 
working  as  the  district  manager 
for  Brooks  Brothers. 

LYLE  HIMEBAUGH 

is  busy  with  church  and  com- 
muniry  events  in  the  town  of 
Pelham  Manor,  NY,  with  his 


wife,  Kelly,  and  their  daughters, 
Lilly,  age  ?,  and  Helen,  age  2. 

ALBAN  SATO 

met  with  former  WC  professor 
Noriko  Narita  in  Japan  last  De- 
cember. 

RICK  SOWELL 

was  featured  in  the  March  issue 
of  Lacrosse  Magaztrte  as  the  head 
lacrosse  coach  at  Dartmouth. 


1987 


EDDIE  CAMMACK 

owns  a  Qu.ility  Fanii  and  Fleet 
store,  a  lawn  and  landscaping 
business,  in  Leonardtown,  MD. 

JIM  DONAHUE 

lives  with  his  wife,  Terry,  and 
their  daughter,  Laura,  in  Valley 
Forge,  PA.  Jim  is  a  sales  rep  for 
Black  &  Decker 

ALISON  SHORTER  LAWRENCE 

aiul  her  hu^b.ind,  Richard, 
bought  their  first  home  last 
March  in  Arlington,  VA,  and 
have  had  a  busy  year  settling  in. 
They  will  be  moving  on  soon  as 
they  have  received  word  of  their 
next  assignment  in  Seoul,  Ko- 
rea. Alison  will  be  a  consular  of- 
ficer at  the  U.S.  Embassy  begin- 
ning in  October  1999.  They  are 
excited  about  exploring  a  cul- 
ture so  completely  different  from 
their  own  and  look  forward  to 
the  chance  to  travel  around 
Asia. 

1988 

CHARLOTTE  POST  CHASE 

attende^l  the  W.ishington,  D.C, 
happy  hour  on  February  22  to 
toast  WC  patron  George  Wash- 


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ington.  She  lives  in  Arlington, 
VA,  with  her  husband  and  diree 
daughters — Corhin,  Lucy,  and 
Georgianna. 

JAN  HARTLEY 

IS  the  new  head  ot  technical  ser- 
vices at  Seattle  University' 's 
Lemieux  Library.  After  a  12-year 
absence,  she  is  happy  to  he  hack 
home  in  Washington  State.  Her 
new  e-mail  address  is 
hartleyj@seattleu.edu. 

DAVID  HEALEY 

h,is  written  a  historical  thriller 
called  Sliaipih( « >ter  that  will  be 
published  in  November  by 
Berkley  Books.  Tlie  novel  has 
been  described  as  something  like 
The  Day  of  the  jaclud  set  during 
the  Civil  War.  A  collection  of 
his  columns  from  the  Cecil  Whig 
newspaper  ot  Elkton,  MD, 
where  David  is  the  features  edi- 
tor, will  be  published  in  Augtist 
to  coincide  with  the  Wliig's 
tenth  anniversary  as  a  daily. 
David  lives  in  Chesapeake  City 
with  his  wife,  Joanne,  and  their 
children,  Mar^'  and  Aiden. 

PETER  MENDIVIL 

IS  working  tor  NDS  Americas 
Inc.,  a  news  corporation  com- 
pany in  Newport  Beach,  CA, 
that  manufactures  and  sells  digi- 
tal encoders  and  satellite  receiv- 
ers for  the  television  broadcast 
industry.  Peter  is  the  marketing/ 
contracts  coordinator — a  big  ca- 
reer change  from  his  previous 
four  years  ot  home  building,  and 
his  eight  years  ot  national  edu- 
cation policy  and  grants  writing. 
Peter  handles  public  relations, 
advertising,  trade  shows,  and 


contracts  administration.  Peter 
lives  "just  a  par  fi\-e  from  the 
beach!" 

MARTHA  MUMBACH 

is  enjoying  lite  in  New  York 
City  and  keeps  in  touch  via  e- 
mail  with  fellow  AOPi  sisters 
Sara  Dunning  Brittain  '88, 
Alden  Caldwell-Gaines  '88, 
Kristen  Kosak  Darwin  '88,  and 
Kay  Montgomery  Knopf  '88. 

DAVE  REAMER 

completed  his  master's  degree  in 
acupuncture  in  June  ot  '98  and 
is  a  licensed  acupuncturist  in 
Maryland.  He  attended  the  Tra- 
ditional Acupuncture  Institute 
in  Columbia,  MD,  and  is  prac- 
ticing in  Baltimore  City. 

1989 

TOM  AUVIL 

li\  cs  with  his  wite,  Stephanie, 
and  daughter,  Alexis,  in  Balti- 
more. Tom  is  a  programmer/ 
analyst  for  Computer  Sciences 
Corporation  (CSC)  and,  along 
with  his  brothers,  is  starting  a 
computer  company  that  builds, 
sells,  and  services  PCs. 

WILLIAM  BECK 

is  a  video  editor  tor  the  Discov- 
ery Channel. 

RAUL  FELIPA 

and  his  wife,  Lisa  Lambert 
Felipa  '89,  have  been  living  in 
California's  Silicon  Valley  for 
the  last  nine  years,  despite  their 
original  plan  to  stay  for  only 
two.  They  have  a  wonderful  son, 
Nicholas,  age  2'/;.  Raul  is  a  di- 
rector of  finance  and  administra- 
tion at  Stanford  University's 


Brigid  Kolish  '98  (left),  the  First  Reunion  chair,  is  pictureil  with  1999  Class 
officers  J.T.  Cunic  and  Anne  Klug. 


medical  school  and  Lisa  is  a 
paralegal  working  for  Applied 
Materials. 

JANET  SIMMS 

was  promoted  to  diiector  of  mar- 
keting at  Wor-Wic  Community 
College  in  Salisbury,  MD,  where 
she  has  worked  tor  the  past  eight 
years.  She  is  working  on  her 
doctoral  degree  in  education  in 
human  development  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Mar\'land  College 
Park. 

JESSE  WINSTON  VANGEISON 

is  a  senior  teclmical  specialist 
and  technical  wTiter  at  Kaiser 
Foundation  Health  Plan  in  Sil- 
ver Spring,  MD.  She  and  her 
husband,  Greg,  enjoy  spending 
time  with  their  2-year-old  son, 
Harry  Caraway  VanGeison.  Jesse 
looks  forward  to  seeing  many  of 
her  classmates  at  Reunion. 

1990 

STEVE  ATTIAS 

has  been  ttansterred  to  Colum- 
bia, SC,  where  he  is  a  full  line 
salesman  for  Heidelberg,  selling 
the  sheet-fed  printing  presses 


Brad  Johnson  '83.  Eleanor  Shriver 
'93  and  Matt  Weir  90  attended  a 
Reunion  event  honoring  the 
memory  of  their  former  professor 
Dr.  Tai  Sung  An.  They  were  among 
many  alumni  who  contributed  to 
an  office  named  for  An  in  William 
Smith  Hall. 


which  go  tor  upwards  ot  $4  mil- 
lion and  smaller  items  including 
an  office  letter  folder  tor 
$10,000,  so  there  IS  a  lull 
breadth  of  product  offering. 

SARAH  COSTE 

has  been  living  in  Maui,  HI,  for 
more  than  two  years  and  loves 
it.  She  works  at  the  Kapalua  Re- 
sort in  their  Tournament  Opera- 
tions department,  orchestrating 
the  Mercedes  Championships, 
the  kickoff  PGA  tour  event.  Sa- 
rah enjoys  playing  tennis  in 
year-round  leagues. 

DAVE  HECKSCHER 

lives  in  Columbus,  OH,  with  his 
wite.  Jenny,  and  their  daughter, 
Ailsa. 

MAn  ZUECH 

is  teaching  se\'enth  grade  in 
Toms  River,  Nj.  and  tending  bar 
in  his  spare  time  at  an  Outback 
Steakhouse.  He  has  stayed  in 
touch  with  Paul  Schuncke  '89 
who  recently  started  a  dream  job 
and  Colleen  Moran  '93  who 
now  gets  paid  to  play  on  big 
boats  on  the  Delaware  River.  He 
would  love  to  hear  from  the  rest 
of  his  friends  — e-mail  him  at 
zuech@webspan.net  or 
zmarketing@ghms.com. 

1991 

KELLI  FARRELL  HELBLING 

started  a  Creative  Memories 
home-based  business.  She 
teaches  people  how  to  keep 
meaningful  and  creative  photo 
albums.  E-mail  her  at 
tkhelhling@yalioo.com. 


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HEATHER  PAnESON  ROSS 

li\es  in  North  Carolina  with  her 
husband,  Doug,  their  daughter, 
Lindsey  Anne,  and  their  Boykin 
spaniel,  Zinny. 

1992 

DR.  KASEY  CARROLL-BASSO 

was  the  third-place  female  hn- 
isher  in  the  Siesta  Key  "iTvICA 
Sharks  Triathlon  on  Siesta  Key 
Beach  on  the  Gulf  oi  Mexico. 

MARTHA  HEATH  COOLEY 

was  married  to  Steven  Friedman 
on  April  20,  1996.  She  has  been 
the  marketing  and  advertising 
director  at  Hamilton  Jewelers  for 


almost  two  years.  Her  husband  is 
a  management  representati\'e  for 
Westgate,  Inc.,  a  commercial 
and  residential  real  estate  man- 
agement company  based  in 
Trenton,  NJ.  They  often  see  fel- 
low alumni  Ryder  Daniels  '90, 
Peter  '90  and  Sharyn  Johnson, 
and  Jennifer  Eisberg  '90. 

TROY  PETENBRINK 

bought  a  new  home  with  his 
partner  and  they  celebrated  their 
sbcth  ■annl\•ersar^•  in  January. 

MARIA  BANASHAK  SAVAGE 

is  a  special  agent  for  the  Federal 
Bureau  of  Investigation  (FBI). 


Maryland  Delegates 
Joe  Getty  74  (led)  and 
Barry  Glassman  '84 
raised  a  birthday  toast 
to  George  Washington 
at  the  State  House  in 
Annapolis.  Joe  came 
back  to  campus  in  May 
lor  his  25th  Reunion. 


She  graduated  from  the  FBI 
Academy  in  April  1998  and  is 
working  on  a  drug  and  organized 
crime  squad  that  targets  major 
Mexican  diug  traffickers. 

1993 

JENNIFER  SLOAN  DiPAULA 

IS  li\ing  in  Cedar  Park,  TX,  and 
is  working  for  a  lobbyist  at  the 
Jackson  Walker  law  firm  in 
downtown  Austin.  The  best  way 
to  get  in  touch  with  her  is  at  her 
work  e-mail:  jdipaula@jw.com. 

SETH  ENGEL 

covered  the  impeachment  trial 
and  campaign  '98  for  C-SPAN 


Vanessa  Haight  '84  Is  a  por- 
trait artist  specializing  In  min- 
iature painting.  Using  prepared 
wood  panels  and  egg  tempera 
paint  with  hand-ground  pig- 
ments, she  creates  miniature 
portraits  for  clients.  She  also 
works  in  oils,  recreating  heir- 
loom portraits  from  old  photo- 
graphs. Haight,  who  studied  at 
the  Pennsylvania  Academy  of 
the  Fine  Arts  in  Philadelphia, 
has  worked  as  director  of  an 
art  gallery  in  Wilmington.  She 
also  cleans  and  restores  18th- 
and  19th-century  works  of  art 
as  an  assistant  paintings  con- 
servator with  Ken  Milton  Fine 
Arts  Conservation  Center  In 
Chestertown. 


this  year.  He  hopes  WC  rugby 
continues  for  a  long  time. 

FIRST  LIEUTENANT  EDWARD  C. 
GREELEY 

IS  an  intantn-  officer  in  the  Ma- 
rine Corps  and  is  li\ing  in  the 
California  desert.  He  recently 
spent  six  months  overseas  in 
Okinawa,  mainland  Japan,  and 
Thailand.  He  is  a  rifle  company 
commander  for  Alpha  Com- 
pany, First  Battalion,  Seventh 
Marines.  Ted  lives  vicariously 
through  the  wild  experiences  of 
his  brother  Andrew  who  was  a 
senior  at  WC  this  year. 

MONIQUE  WARE 

is  li\"uig  and  workmg  m  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  after  completing 
her  master's  degree  at  Middlebury 
College  and  ser\'ing  as  a  Peace 
Corps  volunteer  in  Ecuador 

1994 

JEFF  GRAFTON 

celebrated  St.  Patrick's  Day  in 
Chestertown  by  ha\'tng  lunch  at 
the  Bluebird  Tavern  with  fellow 
alumni  Natalie  Guiberson  '94 
and  Adam  Ruby  '97. 

TINA  LENNON 

recently  moved  to  New  Canaan, 
CT,  and  IS  working  as  operations 
manager  at  Countr\-  Swedish  m 
South  Norwalk. 

JENNIFER  NYMAN  WHITE 

IS  li\-ing  in  Las  Vegas,  NV,  w'ait- 
ing  to  hear  where  her  husband, 
Sandy,  will  be  doing  his  resi- 
dency. TTiey  ha\'e  two  beautiful 
daughters — Madeline,  2,  and 
Hannah,  6  months. 


1995 


CHRIS  FREISHEIIVI 

is  enrolled  at  Perm  State  Uni- 
\-ersir\-  in  the  MBA  program. 

DAVID  GEORGE, 

tomier  president  of  ODK  and  a 
math  major,  received  his 
master's  degree  in  operation  re- 
search from  The  George  Wash- 
ington University  in  May.  He  is 
working  for  the  Nav^. 

SUSAN  HUNTLEY 

is  working  on  her  master's  de- 
gree in  social  anthropology  at 
Brandeis  Unnersity  in  Boston. 

BREn  KOPAY 

IS  working  in  corporate  sales  at 


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Tiffany  &  Company.  She  is  liv- 
ing with  Tini  Reardon  '96  in  Ar- 
lington, VA.  Tim  is  with  the  In- 
dependent Petroleum  Associa- 
tion in  Washington,  D.C.  "We'd 
love  to  hear  from  anyone!  E- 
mail  us  at  ausable2@aoLcom." 

TYLER  MCCARTHY 

is  working  as  an  assistant  trea- 
surer tor  Bank  Austria  Credit- 
anstalt.  He  lives  in  Greenwich, 
CT,  and  can  be  reached  at 
TMCCAR2278@aol.com. 

MAn  MURRAY 

and  his  wite,  Sharla  Ponder 
Murray  '95,  toasted  both  George 
Washington  and  Washington 
College  on  the  embassy  com- 
pound in  New  Dehli,  India. 
Tliey  offered  explanations  all 
around  about  WC's  proud  his- 
tory and  celebrated  with  patrons 
the  "toast  heard  'round  the 
world!"  on  Febniary  22,  1999. 

MICHELLE  SHEPPARD 

IS  li\ing  in  Smyrna,  DE,  and  is  a 
therapist  at  the  Delaware  State 
Psychiatric  Hospital. 

1996 

WILL  HUBBS 

resides  in  Jackson,  WY,  where 
he  is  pursuing  graduate  educa- 
tion in  trout  fishing  guide 
school.  "Come  visit!" 

ELIZABETH  MACDONALD 

is  working  tor  Senator  Blanche 
Lincoln's  (D-AR)  office  irfter 
working  for  a  year  at  Emily's  List. 

ROBYN  SHAW 

bought  a  house  in  Bethesda, 
MD,  with  her  sister,  Amy.  She  is 
halhvay  through  the  master's 
program  in  biotechnology  at 
Johns  Hopkins  Uni\'ersiry. 

MELANIE  STOER 

is  living  in  Chev7  Chase,  MD, 
with  Meghan  Brumby  '98  and 
works  in  marketing  for  an  envi- 
ronmental engineering  firm.  She 


spent  the  month  of  March  trav- 
eling in  Argentina  and  Chile. 

AMY  TINGLE 

was  promoted  to  senior  market- 
ing manager  at  Eagle  Book 
Clubs,  Inc.  She  is  living  in 
Chevy  Chase,  MD. 


1997 


KELLY  EAKIN 

is  a  house  counsellor  for  Target, 
Inc.  She  is  completing  a  rwo- 
year  master's  program,  and  is 
working  part-time  as  a  behavior 
therapist.  She  is  looking  tor  doc- 
toral programs. 

JOHN  GUCHEMAND 

is  serving  in  the  Peace  Corjis  in 
Uzbekistan  teaching  English  to 
fifth-  and  sixth-grade  students. 
He  has  been  learning  the  Uzbek 
language  and  is  living  with  a 
host  family  in  Syr  Dayria. 

MAH  MULLIN 

is  the  manager  of  the  Chesa- 
peake Bay  Foundation's  Karen 
Noonan  Center  where  he 
teaches  environmental  educa- 
tion. He  manages  one  ot  the 
Foundation's  tour  island  residen- 
tial centers  on  the  bay  and  loves 
it.  Bart  Jaeger  '96,  Will  Smiley 
'96,  and  Scott  Culpepper  '96  are 
also  on  staff  teaching  en\'iron- 
mental  education.  "We  all  raise 
our  beers  to  say  ye;il"i  WC!  Save 
the  Bay!" 

AMY  RIZZITELLO, 

a  second-year  doctoral  sttident 
of  molecular  biology  at 
Princeton  University,  won  the 
C.  E.  McClung  Award  for  the 
best  research  paper  published  in 
Bios  this  year.  Her  paper,  titled 
"Tlie  Homeotic  Transtonnation 
ot  Tails-into-Limbs  in  Amphib- 
ians Treated  with  Retinol  Palmi- 
tate,"  was  published  in  Bios.  The 
award  is  given  each  year  to  a 
Tribetan  in  honor  of  Dr.  C.  E. 
McClung,  the  second  president 
of  Beta  Beta  Beta,  who  was  a 


Carey  Hargrove  '96,  of  Hargrove,  Inc.,  was  the  man  behind  the  scenes  of 
the  50th-anniversary  summit  meeting  of  NATO.  What  was  meant  to  be  a 
celebratory  affair  for  the  largest  gathering  of  foreign  leaders  turned  somber 
as  the  NATO  bombing  of  Yugoslavia  raged  on.  As  NATO's  19  heads  of  gov- 
ernment gathered  to  consider  their  next  moves,  they  met  around  a  massive 
diplomatic  table  spanning  145  feet  in  circumference,  built  In  Hargrove's 
headquarters  In  Lanham,  MD.  Later,  they  were  joined  by  the  leaders  of  23 
partner  countries,  the  Euro-Atlantic  Partnership  Council. 


Paul  O'Hearn  '97  returned  from  a  trip  to  Key  West,  FL,  where  he  visited  his 
brother,  John  '96.  Paul  spent  the  week  "hanging  out  with  a  number  of  fel- 
low alumni"  (Jim  "Ice  Lord"  Czarnlak  '98.  Tim  "Dr.  Cosmetics  "  Hoffacker 
'98,  Tom  "Non-Alum"  O'Hearn,  Erika  "Ketchup"  Ford  '98,  Kurt  "Not-Pic- 
tured" Sommer  '98,  and  John  "Flatty  McGhee  "  O'Hearn  '96)  and  eating 
conch  fritters,  a  local  specialty  that,  he  says,  "burn  like  the  truth  when  you 
eat  them.  To  all  alums  with  whom  I've  lost  contact,  give  me  a  call  and  buy 
my  taffy!" 


strong  adx'ocate  of  undergradu- 
ate research  as  a  teaching 
method. 

ANDREW  VAN  OGTROP 

is  enjoying  a  career  at  Paine 
Webber  and  is  still  putting  up 
with  the  antics  of  his  room- 


mate, Brian  Dorst  '97.  They  say 
they  have  tiiund  an  establish- 
ment in  New  York  that  rivals 

Newt's. 

GENE  B.  VASSEL 

xim  in  the  1998  New  York  City 
Marathon. 


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AGES 


Janet  Simms  '89  to  Corey  Kennington  on 
June  20,  1998.    Sondra  Bo:man  Daisy 
'86  was  matron  of  honor.  The  couple  is 
living  in  Salisbury,  MD. 

Maria  Banashak  '92  to  Bryce  Savage  111 
on  September  6,  1997.   In  attendance 


were  Jennifer  Golden  '92,  Brigid  DeVries 
'93,  Lara  Buchanan  '92,  and  Lauri 
McCIellan  '92. 

Seth  Engel  '93  to  Mia  Juliann  Gibbons  on 
May  23,  1998.  Patrick  Attenasio  '92  at- 
tended. I 


Miriam  Perkins  '42  to  Pete  Crenshaw  on  June 
6, 1998,  inCtiestertown. 


Rick  Sowell  '86  to  Catherine  Smith  on  September 
5, 1998,  in  Media,  PA.  Kevin  Giblin  '85  and  John 
Nostrant  '86  were  in  the  wedding  party.  Among 
those  In  attendance  were  Tom  Eucker  '84,  Brian 
'84  and  Kathy  Wurzbacher  Corrlgan  '84,  Eric  '86 
and  Victoria  Fuchs  Gerlngswald  '87,  Don  Giblin 
'86,  Tom  '86  and  Alden  Caldwell-Gaines  '88,  and 
former  WC  lacrosse  coach  Terry  Corcoran. 


1998 

DINA  ABBATE 

owns  a  ci  imputer  sales  and  ser- 
vice firm  in  Hatboro,  PA.  She  is 
hoping  to  go  back  to  school  and 
get  her  MBA  sometime  soon. 

SARAH  BELL 

will  be  returning  east  ft-om  Rock 
Springs,  WY,  in  September  of  '99 
after  a  year's  stint  with  Amen- 
QirpsA''ista  where  she  is  an  advo- 
cate tor  victims  of  domestic  vio- 
lence and  sexual  assault.  She 
plans  to  go  on  to  grad  schixil 
and  gainful  emplo>Tnent. 

CAROLYN  FUSS 

is  coordinating  volunteers  for 
environmental  projects  in  all 
nine  counties  of  the  Eastern 
Shore  of  Maryland. 

KELLY  GEORGE 

is  teaching  French  and  Spanish 


4- 


at  Broadneck  High  School  in 
Annapolis,  MD. 

JENNIFER  SANDS 

Uve^  m  Washington,  D.C.,  and 
works  tor  The  Advisor^'  Board 
Company,  a  membership-based 
research  and  publishing  think- 
tank. 

TIMOTHY  TAWNEY 

finished  his  first  year  at 
Georgetown  Unn'ersity  in  the 
Graduate  School  of  Foreign 
Service.  He  is  working  toward 
a  master's  degree  in  German 
and  European  Studies  and 
spent  the  summer  in  Germany 
on  a  Deutsche  Akedemische 
.^ustausch  Dienst  Fellowship. 

ERIN  WADE 

is  an  oftice  administrator  with 
Brando-wine  Benefits,  a  manage- 
ment firm  specializing  in  retire- 


ment benefit  plans  for  small 
businesses. 


Masters 
1976 

FRANKIE  MILLER 

has  been  named  dean  of  the  di- 
vision of  hospitality  and  tourism 
at  Trident  Technical  College, 
where  she  is  responsible  for  su- 
per\'ising  all  aspects  of  instruc- 
tional programs  in  hospitality 
and  tourism  and  culinary'  arts. 

JANE  MITCHELL 

was  honored  in  a  ceremony  at 
the  Delaware  Psychiatric  Hospi- 
tal where  a  new  $6.5  million  fo- 
rensic building  was  named  for 
her.  The  Jane  Mitchell  Building 
houses  mentally  ill  people  who 
have  been  charged  with,  or  con- 
victed of,  criminal  offenses. 


1991 

scon  SWAIM 

is  a  \olunteer  at  the  Clear\\ater 
Marine  ."Xquarium  in  Honda 
where  he  is  the  program  director 
for  an  animal-assisted  therapy 
program  called  Full  Circle.  The 
program  helps  children  with  dis- 
abilities by  utilizing  dolphins, 
sea  turtles,  otters,  and  stingrays 
to  help  them  work  on  their  indi- 
vidual therapy  goals.  The  pro- 
gram was  featured  on  an  HBO 
show  called  Three  Cats  from  Mi- 
ami with  Mar^'  Tyler  Moore. 

1993 

JUDE  PFISTER 

and  his  wife,  Miriam,  attended 
the  "Treasures  From  Mount 
Vernon"  exhibit  at  the  New 
York  Historical  Socier\'  in  Feb- 
ruary with  fellow  alumni.  They 
found  it  to  be  a  wonderful  ex- 
hibit and  a  great  alumni  event.  ► 


38 


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I 


N         MEMORIAM 


Elizabeth  "Pet"  Applegarth  Mace 
Farver  '3 1  died  on  March  6, 
1999,  in  Easton,  MD.  She  gradu- 
ated third  in  her  class  and  was 
the  first  female  recipient  of  the 
Harry  Porter  Medal  for  charac- 
ter. She  taught  for  several  de- 
cades in  the  Cambridge,  MD, 
school  system.  She  is  survived  by 
two  sons  and  five  grandchildren. 

James  Deputy  Davis  '34  died  on 
January  15,  1999,  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  A  Kent  County  native, 
he  served  in  the  U.S.  Navy  dur- 
ing World  War  II  and  owned 
Davis  Real  Estate  in  Galena.  Mr. 
Davis  is  survived  by  a  son,  a 
daughter,  and  three  grandchil- 
dren. 

Kathryn  "Kitty"  McKenney 
Michaels  '34  died  on  January  27, 
1999,  in  Wilmington,  DE.  She 
was  a  social  worker  in  Rochester, 
NY,  for  many  years  before  mov- 
ing to  Florida  where  she  was  a 
junior  board  member  at  the  Eu- 
gene du  Pont  Memorial  Hospital. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Association  of  University 
Women  (AAUW).  She  is  sur- 
vived by  a  stepson,  a  niece,  and  a 
nephew. 

Alfred  S.  Hodgson  '34  died  ear- 
lier this  year  in  Sarasota,  FL. 

Sam  Walls  '34  died  on  March  3, 
1998,  in  Alexandria,  VA.  A  re- 
tired Navy  captain  who  as  a  dive 
bomber  pilot  during  World  War 
II  flew  more  than  40  missions. 
Captain  Walls  was  a  native  of 
Price,  MD.  His  military  decora- 
tions include  three  Distinguished 
Flying  Cross  Medals  and  seven 
Air  Medals.  He  is  survived  by  a 


daughter,  two  sisters,  and  two 
grandsons. 

George  T.  Pratt  '36  died  on  De- 
cember 31,  1998,  in  Eastham, 
MA.  A  history  major,  he  re- 
ceived a  master's  degree  from 
Duke  University.  Mr.  Pratt's  en- 
tire career  was  spent  in  the  field 
of  education,  first  as  a  teacher  in 
Centreville,  MD,  specializing  in 
the  oral  education  of  deaf  chil- 
dren. He  is  survived  by  a  son,  a 
brother,  a  sister,  and  two  grand- 
sons. 

Lucille  Legg  Taylor  '36  died  on 
January  26,  1999,  in  Salisbury, 
MD.  Mrs.  Taylor  taught  school 
in  Baltimore  and  on  the  lower 
Eastern  Shore  and  was  a  member 
of  the  Retired  Teachers  Associa- 
tion of  Worcester  County.  She  is 
survived  by  a  son,  two  grand- 
sons, one  great-grandson,  and 
two  nieces. 

Ellwood  T.  Claggett  '38  died  on 
March  22,  1999,  in  Easton,  MD. 
He  is  survived  by  his  wife, 
Harriett  W.  Claggett. 

Harry  Coleman  '38  died  on 
April  7,  1999,  in  Chestertown. 
Harry  was  a  political  science  and 
history  major  who  served  in  the 
U.S.  Navy  during  World  War  II. 
He  worked  with  the  IRS  in  An- 
napolis before  he  began  his  40- 
year  career  at  the  Chestertown 
Post  Office.  He  is  survived  by  a 
daughter. 

H.  Gibbons  "Gibby"  Young  '39 
died  on  January  30,  1999,  in 
Ocean  Beach,  NC.  At  WC  he 
excelled  at  pentathlon  events  and 
was  among  the  country's  top 


sprinters  from  1935  to  1938. 
Gibby  became  a  real  estate  devel- 
oper in  the  Newark,  DE,  area  af- 
ter a  five-year  stint  as  a  golf  pro. 
He  is  survived  by  a  son,  two 
daughters,  a  former  wife,  a  sister, 
and  four  grandchildren. 

Sara  Blackwood  Hannan  '42 
died  on  March  25,  1999,  in 
Washington,  D.C.  The  former 
Alpha  Chi  is  survived  by  five 
children,  14  grandchildren,  and 
five  great-grandchildren. 

William  M.  Sterling  '42  died  on 
February  17,  1999.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Sophie  Jones 
Sterling  '46. 

Dorothy  Lewis  Skocz  '45  died  on 
January  15,  1999.  She  is  sur- 
vived by  her  husband,  Joseph 
Skocz. 

Dr.  Clayton  McGran  Jr.  '48  died 
on  January  13,  1999,  in  Hous- 
ton, TX.  McGran,  a  stalwart 
member  of  the  Austin  theater 
community,  was  a  board  member 
of  the  Austin  Circle  of  Theaters 
and  worked  as  an  assistant  direc- 
tor on  many  productions.  He  is 
survived  by  his  sister  and  a 
niece. 

Mary  Bartlett  Mills  '48  died  on 
March  31,  1999. 

Milton  L.  "Mickey"  Hubbard 
'50  died  on  March  19,  1999,  in 
Cambridge,  MD.  Hubbard  ex- 
celled in  football  and  track  and 
field  at  WC.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Baltimore  Olympic  Club  and 
participated  in  the  Melrose 
Games  at  Madison  Square  Gar- 
den. Hubbard  taught  in 
Dorchester  County  public 
schools  for  34  years.  He  is  sur- 


vived by  a  sister,  his  former  wife,  a 
daughter,  three  sons,  and  four 
grandchildren. 

James  E.  Taylor  '52  died  on  April 
11,  1999,  in  Wilmington,  DE.  Tay- 
lor worked  for  the  duPont  Com- 
pany as  a  financial  analyst  for  over 
30  years.  Taylor  was  an  avid  golfer 
and  horseback  rider  and  belonged 
to  St.  Patrick's  Church  in  Kennett 
Square,  PA.  He  is  survived  by  a 
brother  and  several  nieces  and 
nephews. 

Alice  Davis  Dey  '62  died  on  March 
1,  1998,  in  Annapolis,  MD.  She  is 
survived  by  her  father,  Henry  G. 
Davis  '35. 

Richard  Heymann  '69  died  on 
March  4,  1999,  in  Charleston,  SC. 
A  journalist  and  principal  of 
Magellan  Marketing  and  Splash 
Marketing,  he  was  a  freelance 
writer  for  The  Post  and  Courier 
and  The  Charleston  Regional  Busi- 
ness Journal.  He  is  survived  by  his 
sister  and  his  stepmother. 

William  Haythorn  '84  died  on  June 
6,  1998,  in  Baltimore,  MD.  He  is 
survived  by  his  parents,  his  sister, 
and  a  friend,  Michael  Polizzi. 

Honorary  alumna  Gertrude  Belle 
Elion  H  '93,  a  Nobel  Laureate  re- 
search chemist  who  developed  a 
drug  for  the  treatment  of  childhood 
leukemia  and  another  used  to  pre- 
vent transplanted  organ  rejection, 
died  on  February  21,  1999. 

Honorary  alumnus  Dr.  Glenn 
Seaborg  H  '97,  a  Nobel  Laureate 
research  chemist  who  held  patents 
on  43  chemical  processes  and  who 
discovered  more  elements  than  any 
other  scientist,  died  on  February 
25,  1999.  I 


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39 


CURRENTS 

The  Long  Road  Back  to 

possessions,  but  their            |«<^'^teEat=!^'T»;"'.i 

homeland  as  well.                   '•                    y    "^    '%'~^           "  w 

Kosovo 

"There  is  a  pride  you 

have,"  Levend  ex-                   \ 

v.o 

(77  Dcii'icJ  Snyder  '92 

plained  to  me,  "And             |r 
now,  I  don't  have  it.              1 

SUERBIMET    KATOLIKE 

TE    LEUTESIMIT                       * 

CATUOIIC    RELIEF     SERVICES           fe 

Now  it  is  up  to  me  to 

^Though  distanced,  now, 
1  from  the  misery  of  Blace, 

vices  was  distributing  food 
and  water  at  the  border,  the 

make  myself  strong               1 
again."                                   \. 

Levend's  voice  still  ed^ed 

sheer  numbers  arriving  there 

For  the  vast  major-            4     ' 

wK^K 

with  the  pain  ot  that  val- 

were overwhelming.  "You 

ity  of  Kosovar  refugees      '  % 

j^^K. 

ley — a  pain  that  tinted  each 

cannot  imagine  that  place," 

now  swelling  the                   \ 

^^^^^^ 

word  of  the  story  he  sat  re- 

Levend said,  shaking  his 

camps  and  collective 

^^^ 

^^P^^^^^ 

counting  through  a  cloud  of 

head  with  the  memory.  "It 

centers  in  Macedonia 

^^1 

^^^^^^^^^^ 

cigarette  smoke.  But  if  a  cafe 

you  have  not  been  there,  you 

and  neighboring  Alba- 

■ 

^^^^^^^^^^ 

in  Macedonia  seems  an  odd 

just  cannot  imagine  that 

nia,  that  strength 

^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

backdrop  to  the  tragedy  un- 

place." 

comes  from  thoughts 

^^1 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  • 

folding  in  Kosovo,  it  serves 
to  illustrate  the  reach  of  the 

With  the  establishment  of 
tented  camps  further  inside 

of  returning  some  day 

■ 

^^^^^^^^ 

to  Kosovo.  It  IS  spo- 

crisis now  gripping  the 

of  Macedonia,  conditions  for 

ken  of  in  chorus 

David  Snyder  '92 

Balkans,  if  not  the  depth  of 

the  thousands  stuck  at  the 

amidst  the  suffering  here,  a 

the  wounds  still  forming 

border  improved  literally 

single  sustaining  hope  for 

But  the  tragedy  of  Kosovo 

here. 

overnight.  Through  the  com- 

those who  have  little  else. 

is  not  only  what  remains  to 

I  met  Levend  through  my 

bined  efforts  of  NATO 

But  with  so  vicious  a  conflict 

he  done,  hut  what  has  al- 

work with  Catholic  Relief 

troops  and  humanitarian 

still  raging,  few  know,  or 

ready  been  done  by  a  conflict 

Services,  having  arrived  in 

agencies,  refugees  were 

choose  to  accept,  the  reali- 

that has  left  more  than  one 

Macedonia  during  the  first 

housed,  fed,  and  treated  by 

ties  of  what  remains  for  them 

million  people  homeless.  Ac- 

week of  the  NATO  air  cam- 

medical teams.  Representa- 

in Kosovo. 

cording  to  many  who  have 

paign  against  Yugoslavia.  As 

tives  of  each  family  were  ap- 

Whatever the  outcome,  it 

fled,  entire  villages  have 

a  national  staff  member 

pointed  to  ensure  that  every- 

is certain  that  the  refugees 

been  razed,  and  the  coming 

working  for  the  agency  in 

one  in  the  camps  received 

now  fleeing  Kosovo  will  need 

months  are  sure  to  see  simi- 

Kosovo, Levend  had  been 

rations,  and  hundreds  ot  tons 

the  continued  assistance  of 

lar,  and  even  more  horrific. 

unable  to  evacuate  when  the 

of  food  and  supplies  arrived 

the  international  community. 

accounts  surface.  For  so 

air  strikes  started.  Forced 

through  a  massive  logistical 

Too  often,  the  world  has  a 

many  now,  rebuilding  the 

from  his  home  in  Pristina,  he 

pipeline. 

short  attention  span.  But  just 

lives  they  had  before  the 

says,  by  Serbian  police, 

But  the  crisis  still  unfold- 

as the  conflict  in  Kosovo  has 

exodus  from  Kosovo  begins 

Levend  found  himself  among 

ing  in  the  Balkans  reaches 

sparked  a  massive  migration 

from  within. 

the  thousands  streaming  to- 

far deeper  than  logistics.  As 

out  of  the  region,  a  settle- 

"When 1  go  back  to 

wards  the  border,  now  one  of 

the  basic  needs  of  food  and 

ment  to  the  conflict  is  sure 

Kosovo,  I  will  not  buy  a  cel- 

the di.splaced  he  had  been 

water  take  precedence 

to  bring  an  equally  massive 

lular  phone,"  Levend  told 

helping  through  his  work 

among  aid  agencies,  the  un- 

repatriation, a  scenario  that 

me,  the  emotion  of  the  last 

with  Catholic  Relief  Ser- 

seen wounds  of  this  conflict 

involves  a  different,  but 

days  wearing  on  his  voice.  "1 

vices. 

remain,  as  yet,  untreated. 

equally  complicated,  logisti- 

will not  buy  a  nice  shirt.  I 

Separated  from  his  family. 

Many,  like  Levend,  are  still 

cal  plan.  Many,  having  aban- 

will buy  a  safe  for  my  spirit, 

Levend  spent  two  days  in  a 

separated  from  family  mem- 

doned their  vehicles  at  the 

because  I  know  now  what  is 

cold  rain  before  reaching  the 

bers,  often  with  no  word  on 

border  during  their  flight 

important."  1 

border  at  Blace,  a  soaking 
valley  into  which  were 

where  their  relatives  might 
he.  Many  others  have  been 

from  Kosovo,  will  need 
transportation  back  to  their 

crowded  perhaps  35,000  ex- 

traumatized, the  psychologi- 

farms and  villages.  Homes 

David  Snyder  '92  is  now 

hausted  refugees.  Few  had 

cal  effects  of  which  threaten 

will  need  to  be  rebuilt.  Seeds 

based  in  Nairobi,  Kenya, 

any  form  of  shelter.  Sanita- 

to impact  an  entire  genera- 

and tools  will  be  needed,  and 

where  he  serves  as  the  Media 

tion  was  non-existent,  and 

tion  of  Kosovars  who  have 

food  provided  until  those 

Relations  Officer  for  Catholic 

though  Catholic  Relief  Ser- 

lost not  only  their  physical 

seeds  yield  crops. 

Relief  Services. 

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COLLEGE 


EVENTS 


June  29 

George  Washington,  Ameri- 
can Symbol 

Washington  College  recep- 
tion, Brandywine  River  Mu- 
seum 

July  17 

Alumni  Council  Retreat 

September  2 

Opening  of  Washingtonian 
numismatic  exhibition,  on 
loan  from  the  Smithsonian 
Institution's  American  His- 
tory Museum.  The  exhibi- 
tion, focusing  on  the  repre- 
sentation and  commemora- 
tion of  George  Washington 
in  currency,  runs  through 
October  29,  1999,  at  the 
Chestertown  Bank. 

September  9 

Fall  Convocation  (tentative) 

September  11 

Kent  &  Queen  Anne's 
Alumni  Chapter  Flea  Market 

September  18 

Alumni  Council  meeting 


October  1 

Alumni  and  Friends  Golf 
Tournament,  Chester  River 
Yacht  &.  Country  Club 

October  2 

Alumni  athletic  contests 

Athletic  Hall  of  Fame 
Banquet  and  Induction 
Ceremony 

October  30 

Homecoming 


For  a  monthly  calendar  of 
events,  contact  the  Special 
Events  Coordinator  at 
1-800-422-1782,  ext.  7849. 
For  Athletic  Info: 

dial  ext.  7238. 
For  Alumni  Info: 

dial  ext.  7812. 
Visit  our  web  site  at 

www.washcoll.edu. 


Corrections 

he  name  of  McGill  University,  site  of  the  Model 
United  Nations  program,  was  misspelled  in  the 
Spring  1999  edition  of  the  Washington  College  Magazine. 

Pat  Bacon  Gressitt  '47's  entry  in  the  Class  Notes  section 
of  the  Spring  '99  Magazine  should  have  conveyed  that 
she  and  her  friends  had  fun  at  reunion  recalling  their 
"exploits,"  not  "ex-pilots."  We  apologize  for  the  errors. 

\ 


IN      M  E  M  0  R  I  A  M 

Peter  R  Tapke 
19304999 

Peter  F.  Tapke,  professor  of 
philosophy  and  reUgion 
emeritus  at  Washington  Col- 
lege,  died  on  June  1 1,  1999. 
He  was  68. 

Tapke  retired  in  1997  after 
35  years  of  teaching.  Among 
his  legacies  are  the  William 
James  Forum,  a  distinguished 
lecture  series  named  for  one  of 
America's  greatest  philoso- 
phers, and  a  rowing  program 
that  under  his  guidance 
evolved  into  a  competitive  var- 
sity program  with  premier  wa- 
terfront facilities. 

"Washington  College  owes 
a  tremendous  debt  of  gratitude 
to  Professor  Tapke  for  his 
years  of  devoted  teaching,"  re- 
marked College  President  John 
S.  Toll,  "and  for  encouraging 
students  to  consider  new  ideas, 
to  broaden  their  perspective  of 
the  world,  through  the  Will- 
iam James  Forum.  The  Forum 
took  on  some  tough  issues,  yet 
it  was  always  grounded  in 
what  it  means  to  be  human 
and  what  we  value.  That  per- 
sistent inquiry  into  how  we 
live  and  treat  one  another  in 
civilized  societies  was  of  great 
importance  to  Peter  Tapke." 

Tapke,  who  developed  a 
popular  course  on  environ- 
mental ethics,  also  served  as 


PHOTO  PEGGY  FOX 

adviser  for  the  Manchester 
College  program  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Oxford,  England,  and  as 
chairman  of  the  College's 
Fulbright  Committee,  He  was 
department  chair  from  1969 
until  1987. 

Tapke  earned  his  bachelor's 
degree  from  Haverford  College 
and  his  master's  and  doctoral 
degrees  from  Harvard  Univer- 
sity. A  member  of  Phi  Beta 
Kappa,  he  was  a  Fulbright 
Scholar  at  the  Higher  Institute 
of  Philosophy  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Louvain  in  Belgium. 

Active  in  community  af- 
fairs, Tapke  was  a  long-stand- 
ing member  of  the  Chester- 
town  Historic  District  Com- 
mission. In  1995,  he  was 
elected  first  president  of  the 
Unitarian  Fellowship  of  the 
Chester  River. 

A  memorial  service  is  being 
planned  for  later  this  summer. 
Contributions  may  be  sent  to 
the  Peter  F.  Tapke  Memorial 
Fund. 


Washington  College  Magazine 

Volume  XLVII  No.  4 
Summer  1999 
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